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Conversations with Stanley Kunitz
About This Book
"He again tops the crowdāhe surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity." That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905ā2006) 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 artistsāby building institutions like Poets House and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusettsāis ever present in these interviews.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Pulitzer Prize Poet Stanley Kunitz Started Career in Worcester
- Communication and Communion: A Dialogue between Stanley Kunitz and Allen Tate
- The Poet in the Classroom
- Presenting the Poet: Stanley Kunitz
- An Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- Stanley Kunitz on āThe Science of the Nightā
- Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- Poetry in the Classroom: A Symposium with Marvin Bell, Donald Hall, and Stanley Kunitz
- Stanley Kunitz: Action and Incantation
- An Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- Stanley Kunitz on the Labyrinth of Forms and the Turning of Worms
- A Dialogue with Stanley Kunitz
- Interview: Stanley Kunitz
- An Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- Stanley Kunitz: An Interview
- Stanley Kunitz: āThe Gifts of the Heart Are Always Added to Our Storeā
- An Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- An Interview with Stanley Kunitz
- Openhearted: Stanley Kunitz and Mark Wunderlich in Conversation
- The Productions of Time: Kunitz on Blake
- Index