Download or read book When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone written by Galway Kinnell and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a collection of poems ranging from melancholy meditations of a solitary mind concerning estrangement and the longing for reconnection to the natural world and its creatures closely observed. “When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone is a poem that invites us, too, to pay such keen attention—both by seeing and listening—to the world, while also paying respect to our own inner lives, our feelings of solitude or self-estrangement, our longings and obligations to each other."—Jennifer Grotz