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''Goodbye,
you who are, for me, the postmarks again
of shattered towns—Xenia, Burnt Cabins,
Hornell—
their loneliness
given away in poems, only their solitude kept.''
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students (l. 32-36). . .
New Oxford Book of A...
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''And now,
in this poem, or chopped prose, not any better,
I realize, than those troubled lines
I kept sending back to you,''
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Correspondence School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students (l. 22-25). . .
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To de-animalize human mentality, to purge it of obsolete
evolutionary characteristics, in particular of death,
which foreknowledge terrorizes the contents of skulls with,
is the fundame...
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Fundamental Project of Technology (l. 29-32). . .
Singular Voices; American Poetry Today. Stephen Berg, e...
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''twice already on earth sparkled a flash, a white flash.''
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Fundamental Project of Technology (l. 42). . .
Singular Voices; American Poetry Today. Stephen Berg, ed. ...
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''a ring of skull-
bone fused to the inside of a helmet; a pair of eyeglasses
taken off the eyes of an eyewitness, without glass,
which vanished, when a white flash sparkled.''
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. The Fundamental Project of Technology (l. 4-7). . .
Singular Voices; American Poetry Today. Stephen Berg, ed....
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''The Christmas grace chilled
The cooked bird, being long-winded and the room cold.''
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. To Christ Our Lord (l. 7-8). . .
Room for Me and a Mountain Lion; Poetry of Open Space. Nancy Larrick, comp. ...
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''The stars glittered on the snow and nothing answered.
Then the Swan spread her wings, cross of the cold north,
The pattern and mirror of the acts of earth.''
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. To Christ Our Lord (l. 28-30). . .
Room for Me and a Mountain Lion; Poetry of Open Space. Nancy Larrick, comp...
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''The young, heads
trailed by the beginnings of necks,
shiver,
in the guarantee they shall be bodies.''
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond (l. 3-6). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison an...
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crack of deputies' rifles practicing their aim on stray dogs
at night,
sput of cattleprod,
TV groaning at the smells of the human body,
curses of the soldier as he poisons, burns, ...
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Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. Vapor Trail Reflected in the Frog Pond (l. 14-18). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison ...
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