Strong Is Your Hold: Poems - Softcover

Presents a striking new collection of poetry by the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award that includes "When the Towers Fell," the poet's requiem for the victims of the September 11 attacks, in a volume accompanied by a CD containing the poet's readings of his work. Reprint.

Galway Kinnell is a former MacArthur Fellow and has been state poet of Vermont. In 1982 his Selected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. For many years he was the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. He is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. For thirty-five years--from WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS to THE BOOK OF NIGHTMARES to THREEE BOOKS--Galway Kinnell has been enriching American poetry, not only by his poems but also by his teaching and his powerful public readings.