Book Review: Brian Hall's 'Fall of Frost' May 10, 2008
Galway Kinnell, Donald Hall, Philip Larkin and other poets have cameos, though bunched together, ponderously, as a choral character named "The Younger Poet." We also encounter Nikita Khrushchev, the cold war's pre-eminent "old-stone savage armed," whose 1962 meeting with Frost provides the nearest thing to plot in Hall's book. It was a cordial meeting - Frost would have preferred it be called a summit - that Frost squandered by misquoting Khrushchev upon his return to the United States, claiming... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Independent Reader: Northern poetry, Southern tragedy Apr 5, 2008
When he quotes "the younger poet," identify him if you can, or look him up and find Galway Kinnell, Padraic Colum, Donald Hall. Read about the strictures of copyright law that kept the author from quoting Frost's poems at length, and keep, at hand, your own copy of Frost's poems. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Mountain magic Feb 13, 2008
Galway Kinnell and H.P. Lovecraft wrote poems about it. In Jaffrey, you feel as if Mount Monadnock, the tallest peak in southwestern New Hampshire, is always peering over your shoulder. (Boston Globe)
Mystery at sea Jul 22, 2007
Pulitzer Prize winner Galway Kinnell is the guest poet on Aug. 5. The Aug. 19 session features David Barber, poetry editor of The Atlantic, of which Longfellow was a founding member. (Boston Globe)
Writer's Paradise Jun 7, 2007
William Faulkner, Galway Kinnell, Philip Roth, Mario Vargas-Llosa, Saul Bellow, Dashiell Hammett, John O'Hara some of the greatest writers of all time have lived and worked in Princeton at one point or another during their belletristic careers. Delmore Schwartz, Edmund Wilson, W.S. Merwin, Geoffrey Wolff and so many others have made Princeton the literary epicenter it is. (Manville News, NJ)
Songs of Ourselves Mar 7, 2007
One dimension of that work has been in oral poetry, countercultural poetry, ecological poetry, environmental poetry all kinds of things that are implicit in Whitman are brought forward by Ginsberg, but also into written poetry in a generation of poets like Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, and Adrienne Rich written poets who were writing a socially engaged poetry that is related to Ginsberg and comes out of a tradition of Whitman. Ginsberg also became a celebrity, and his may be the one name that... (San Antonio Current, TX)
