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The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964
by Kinnell, Galway
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- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New. Signed by author. SIGNED and dated Oct. 1, 2011, by Kinnell on receiving the Sarah Josepha Hale Award, Newport NH. Remainde
- ISBN 10
- 0618219129
- ISBN 13
- 9780618219124
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About This Item
Boston, MA: A Mariner Book / Houghton MIfflin., 2002. First edition. 1st Mariner printing.. Trade paperback. New. Signed by author. SIGNED and dated Oct. 1, 2011, by Kinnell on receiving the Sarah Josepha Hale Award, Newport NH. Remainder mark acroiss top edge.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 160 p. Audience: General/trade. Poetry republished and with some revisions, drawn from Kinnell's 1960 "What a Kingdom It Was" and 1964 "Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock". The title poem is from the former volume. In his prefatory note, the poet comments on his working method. The back cover portrait is an early B&W photo of the author. Kinnell won the Pulitzer and the National Book Award for his 1982 "Selected Poems". He has been a MacArthur Fellow and Vermont's Poet Laureate.
Synopsis
This newly assembled volume draws from two books that were originally published in Galway Kinnell's first two decades of writing, WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS (1960), which included the poem "The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World," and FLOWER HERDING ON MOUNT MONADNOCK (1964). Kinnell has revised some of the work in this new edition, and comments on his working method in a prefatory note.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.P0080005355
- Title
- The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World: Poems: 1953-1964
- Author
- Kinnell, Galway
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. 1st Mariner printing.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0618219129
- ISBN 13
- 9780618219124
- Publisher
- A Mariner Book / Houghton MIfflin.
- Place of Publication
- Boston, MA
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- What a Kingdom It Was|Flower Herding on Mount Monadnock|Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, 1982|MacArthur Fellow|Vermont Poet Laureate
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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