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When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
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When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone Trade paperback - 1990

by Kinnell, Galway

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New York, NY: Knopf Publishing Group, 1990. 2nd printing, 2 months after 1st.. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by author. Light cover surface wear. SIGNED, dated October 1, 2011 on receiving the Sarah Josepha Hale Award, Newport NH.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 70 p. Audience: General/trade. Poetry, 17 works which first appeared in various periodicals, the last being the title poem. Galway Kinnell received both a Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for "Selected Poems" in 1980. He has also been a MacArthur Fellow. He lives in Vermont.
Used - Very good. Signed by author. Light cover surface wear. SIGNED, dated October 1, 2011 on receiving the Sarah Josepha Hale Award,
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  • Title When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone
  • Author Kinnell, Galway
  • Binding Trade paperback
  • Edition 2nd printing, 2 months after 1st.
  • Condition Used - Very good. Signed by author. Light cover surface wear. SIGNED, dated October 1, 2011 on receiving the Sarah Josepha Hale Award,
  • Pages 84
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY
  • Date 1990
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris.P0040005348
  • ISBN 9780679732815 / 0679732810
  • Weight 0.29 lbs (0.13 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.18 x 0.26 in (23.32 x 15.70 x 0.66 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90053163
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

From the publisher

Galway Kinnell lives in Vermont and New York City. He has been the director of an adult education program in Chicago, a journalist in Iran, and a field worker for the Congress of Racial Equality in Louisiana. During the past twenty years he has taught poetry at colleges and universities in this country and in France and Australia. His Selected Poems, published in 1982, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been State Poet of Vermont. He is currently Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.

From the rear cover

This book of wonderful poetry from Galway Kinnell includes such poems as 'Memories of My Father', 'Judas Kiss', 'The Cat', 'The Vow', 'Farewell', and 'When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone.'

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About the author

Galway Kinnell lives in Vermont and New York City. He has been the director of an adult education program in Chicago, a journalist in Iran, and a field worker for the Congress of Racial Equality in Louisiana. During the past twenty years he has taught poetry at colleges and universities in this country and in France and Australia. His Selected Poems, published in 1982, won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. He is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been State Poet of Vermont. He is currently Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University.