Galway Kinnell
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Galway Kinnell
That Silent Evening
I will go back to that silent evening
when we lay together and talked in silent voices,
while outside slow lumps of soft snow
fell, hushing as they got near the ground,
with a fire in the room, in which centuries
of tree went up in continuous ghost-giving-up,
without a crackle, into morning light.
Not until what hastens went slower did we sleep.
When we got home we turned and looked back
at our tracks twining out of the woods,
where the branches we brushed against let fall…
Galway Kinnell
The poems in this volume have been newly selected by Galway Kinnell from his eight collections published between 1960 and 1994: What A Kingdom It Was; Flower Herding On Mount Monadnock; Body Rags; The Book Of Nightmares; Mortal Acts; Mortal Words; The Past; When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone; and Imperfect Thirst. Occasional revisions are addressed by Kinnell in a prefatory note. The life of this great American poet is glimpsed over the years - his childhood in New England, the early death of his…
