That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

2000. For his 1982 Selected Poems he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and split the National Book Award for Poetry with Charles Wright.  
Imperfect Thirst.

Francis and the Sow" and "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps". An admitted follower of Walt Whitman Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world.