Another Night in the Ruins Criticism

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Another Night in the Ruins | Criticism

• Carol Ullmann

  Ullmann is a freelance writer and editor. In the following essay, she discusses the relationship between creativity and spirituality in Kinnell’s poem “Another Night in the Ruins.”

• Lee Zimmerman

  In the following essay excerpt, Zimmerman explores the themes of isolation, struggle and unanswered questions—‘‘revealing our inability to know truth but also our capacity to embody it’’—in Kinnell’s Body Rags. Zimmerman also considers Kinnell’s new approach to writing which he does not arrive at by ‘‘cultivating new concerns’’ but by transfiguring the old.

• Charles Frazier

  In the following essay, Frazier gives a critical analysis of Kinnell’s work.

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