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GALWAY KINNELL (1927 - )
       

Poet and writer, born in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He studied at Princeton (1948 BA), and the University of Rochester (1949 MA), travelled widely, and taught at many colleges. Based in Sheffield, VT he was a translator and essay writer, but is best known for his direct and precise poetry, as in Selected Poems (1982).