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Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz
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Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz will be kept close at hand by young poets as a survival kit. Others who care about poetry and the life of the imagination will read and re-read the book to clear the head. Readers will understand why Kunitz is seen by many as a paradigm of the creative artist, a model and example to whom any artist - poet, painter, or whatever - can go for aid and courage.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1935653 in Books
- Published on: 2000-02-10
- Released on: 2000-02-10
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .85" h x 6.76" w x 8.90" l, 1.23 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 259 pages
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This is a first-rate compilation of interviews with and essays about poet, editor, teacher, and translator Kunitz. The 1959 Pulitzer Prize winner believes that poetry should be "transparent," showing the interrelation of living and dying and the inseparability of the passions and intellect vs. the "objective" art of T. S. Eliot. Plato's ideal forms are "accumulative, circular, dialectical" in poetic meaning. The real world, specifically gardening, is for Kunitz "a ritual drama, in which the whole cycle of death and rebirth is enacted annually." His friendship with Theodore Roethke and passion for the later W. B. Yeats are noted. Some overlapping inevitably occurs, but this book is highly recommended for showing the essence of a great poet. With good notes and an appendix of poems.
- Kenneth Mintz, Hoboken P.L., N.J.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From the Publisher
6 x 9 trim. LC 92-19621
About the Author
STANLEY KUNITZ was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905. He attended Harvard College, served in the Army in World War II, taught at Bennington College, Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Washington. He served for two years as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, was designated State Poet of New York, and a Chancellor Emeritus of The Academy of American Poets. In 2000 he was named United States Poet Laureate.Together with his wife, the painter Elise Asher, he split his time between New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts. He died at the age of 100 on May 14, 2006.
