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University Press of Mississippi

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 "He again tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity." That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained in this volume derive from four decades of Kunitz's distinguished career. They touch on aesthetic motifs in his poetry, the roots of his work, his friendships in the sister arts of painting and sculpture, his interactions with Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and his comments on a host of poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, Wallace Stevens, and Anna Akhmatova. Kunitz emerged from a mid-sized industrial town in central Massachusetts, surviving family tragedy and a sense of personal isolation and loneliness, to become an eloquent spokesman for poetry and for the power of the human imagination. Kunitz has commented, "If we want to know what it felt like to be alive at any given moment in the long odyssey of the race, it is to poetry we must turn." His own odyssey from "metaphysical loneliness" to a sense of community with fellow writers and artists--by building institutions like Poets House and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts--is ever present in these interviews. Kent P. Ljungquist, Jefferson, Massachusetts, is a professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the editor of Antebellum Authors in New York and the author of The Grand and the Fair: Poe's Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques.

Book Details

Publisher:
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN:
9781617038709
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
208
Authors:
Stanley Kunitz
Published Date:
2013-10-29
Language:
English

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About Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard University. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems, 1928–1958 (Little, Brown, 1958), and the National Book Award for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (W. W. Norton, 1995). He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1976 and, at ninety-five, as United States Poet Laureate from 2000 to 2001. His honors include the Bollingen Prize and the National Medal of Arts. A founder of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and of Poets House in New York City, he later taught at Columbia University.

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