New Selected Poems

This ample new selection represents work chosen by Galway Kinnell from his eight previous collections, published between 1960 and 1994. In these personal, philosophical, and political poems, "Kinnell greets each new age with rapture and abundance, the earliest poems in this collection possessing heart, candor, and a wisdom beyond their years. As, certainly, America's preeminent visionary, Kinnell's new book sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, and Frost" (National Book Award judges' citation).