Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and enjoyed a literary career of extraordinary longevity, publishing his final collection at the age of ninety-seven. Educated at Harvard University, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems: 1928–1958 (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1958). He served as Poet Laureate of the United States twice, in 1974 and from 2000 to 2001. His collection The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928–1978 won the National Book Award. He cofounded the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Poets House in New York City, and was a founding member of the journal Antaeus. He taught at Columbia University for many years.