Galway Kinnell
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Galway Mills Kinnell was an American poet. His dark poetry emphasized scenes and experiences in threatening, ego-less natural environments. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1982 collection
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Galway Kinnell reading at Poets House, NYC, Sept. 26, 2009
Rainer Maria Rilke
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René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was an Austrian poet. Acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, he is widely recognized as a significant writer in the
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…Yvan Goll (1968). Yvan Goll, Selected Poems. Translated by Paul Zweig; Jean Varda; Robert Bly; George Hitchcock; Galway Kinnell. Kayak Books. Rainer Maria Rilke (2000). Galway Kinnell (ed.). The Essential Rilke. Translated by Galway Kinnell; Hannah Liebmann. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-095654-7. Black Light…
Rilke in 1900
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), an early expressionist painter, became acquainted with Rilke in Worpswede and Paris, and painted his portrait in 1906.
Duino Castle near Trieste, Italy, was where Rilke began writing the Duino Elegies in 1912, recounting that he heard the famous first line as a voice in the wind while walking along the cliffs and that he wrote it quickly in his notebook.
Château de Muzot in Veyras, Switzerland, was where Rilke completed writing the Duino Elegies in "a savage creative storm" in February 1922.