New blood streamed through their groundbreaking books in the 1960s and 70s: Galway Kinnell’s What a Kingdom It Was(1960), Robert Bly’s Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962), Maxine Kumin’s Up Country(1973), Jack Gilbert’s Views of Jeopardy(1962), Ruth Stone’s In an Iridescent Time (1959), Lucille Clifton’s Good Times(1969) and Donald Hall’s Kicking the Leaves (1978).
New blood streamed through their groundbreaking books in the 1960s and 70s: Galway Kinnell’s What a Kingdom It Was(1960), Robert Bly’s Silence in the Snowy Fields (1962), Maxine Kumin’s Up Country(1973), Jack Gilbert’s Views of Jeopardy(1962), Ruth Stone’s In an Iridescent Time (1959), Lucille Clifton’s Good Times(1969) and Donald Hall’s Kicking the Leaves (1978). Although innovative in their forms and subject matter, they maintained a strong adherence to clarity and sense, a coherence that would continue to resonate in their work well into the first decade of this century, when making sense hasn’t always been an aesthetic priority.