When One Has Lived a Long Time AloneBy: Galway Kinnell 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 attentionboth by seeing and listeningto the world, while also paying respect to our own inner