21. Profiles: The Gardener: The New Yorker For most of a century, stanley kunitz has cultivated generations of the poet stanley kunitz got a letter from Bennington College inviting him to come http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/09/01/030901fa_fact

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22. Poetry Foundation: The Online Home Of The Poetry Foundation stanley kunitz became the tenth Poet Laureate of the United States in the .. Interviews and Encounters with stanley kunitz, edited by stanley Moss, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3869

23. Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate, Dies At 100 - New York Times stanley kunitz was one of the most acclaimed and durable American poets of the last century. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/books/16kunitz.html

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24. Stanley Kunitz Day In The Town Of Provincetown WHEREAS, Provincetown’s first Poet Laureate, stanley kunitz, has served the Provincetown community through his enduring efforts on behalf of such local http://www.provincetown-ma.gov/Kunitz.htm

Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz, 1905-2006 Stanley Kunitz on Provincetown. Last night I reached for you and shaped you there lying beside me as we drifted past the farthest seamarks and the watchdog bells, and round Long Point throbbing its frosty light, until we streamed into the open sea. – from Indian Summer at Land’s End In celebration of his 100th birthday, Friday, July 29, 2005 had been proclaimed as Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz Day in the Town of Provincetown Provincetown Town Manager Keith A. Bergman presents the proclamation to Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz PROCLAMATION Be it hereby proclaimed that W HEREAS, Provincetown’s first Poet Laureate, Stanley Kunitz, has served the Provincetown community through his enduring efforts on behalf of such local institutions as the Fine Arts Work Center; and has, through his life's work, brought honor and distinction to the Provincetown community; and W HEREAS

25. Stanley Kunitz www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/kunitz/kunitz.htm Similar pages norton poets online stanley kunitzstanley kunitz welcomed his ninety-fifth year in 2000. He has received nearly every honor bestowed upon a poet in this country, including the Pulitzer and http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/kunitz/kunitz.htm

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26. Stanley Kunitz - Obituaries, News - Independent.co.uk So said W.H. Auden about the reputation of the American poet stanley kunitz, who indeed lived to 100 and found himself esteemed as a distinctive http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article485455.ece

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27. Online NewsHour: Conversation- October 26, 2000 U.S. Poet Laureate stanley kunitz speaks with Elizabeth Farnsworth. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH stanley kunitz took up his duties as poet laureate October 12 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec00/kunitz.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); CONVERSATION October 26, 2000 U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz speaks with Elizabeth Farnsworth. JIM LEHRER: Finally tonight, a lifetime in poetry. Elizabeth Farnsworth reports. ( Applause ) ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Stanley Kunitz took up his duties as poet laureate October 12 with a reading of his poems at the Library of Congress. STANLEY KUNITZ: "Lamplighter." 1914. "What I remember most was not the incident at Sarajevo but the first flying steam kettle puffing round the bend." ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Kunitz was nine years old when World War I broke out. He was already working, lighting gas lamps on the roads around Worcester, Massachusetts. STANLEY KUNITZ: "I stood on the rim of the buggy wheel and raised my enchanted wand with its tip of orange flame." ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: That flame seemed a metaphor for the light Kunitz has cast ever since in poems which span the century. On this evening he read deeply personal works, including one about his father's suicide.

28. Noted Poet Stanley Kunitz Dead At 100 - BOOKS - MSNBC.com Former US poet laureate won National Book Award when he was 90. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12801949/

Skip navigation Web MSNBC Entertainment Gossip Celebrities Television ... Comics, Sudoku Categories U.S. news World news Politics Business ... Local news Browse Video Photos Community Today Show ... MSNBC TV Noted poet Stanley Kunitz dead at 100 Former U.S. poet laureate won National Book Award when he was 90 Stanley Kunitz, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner whose expressive verse, social commitment and generosity to young writers spanned three-quarters of a century, has died. He was 100. He died Sunday at his home in Manhattan, said his publisher, W.W. Norton. Kunitz had just turned 95 when appointed poet laureate in 2000, capping a career that began 70 years earlier with the collection “Intellectual Things” and later included a Pulitzer, a National Medal of the Arts and — at age 90 — a National Book Award. He served a single one-year term as U.S. poet laureate and was also the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, the precursor to poet laureate, from 1974 to 1976. His poems included tributes to nature and wildlife, such as “The Snakes of September,” the traumatic memories of “The Portrait,” in which he recalled his father’s suicide, and the spiritual journey of “The Long Boat,” with his wish “To be rocked by the Infinite!/as if it didn’t matter which way was home.” His early work was more formal, more dependent on rhyme and meter, but he anticipated his own evolution with the poem “Change,” with its promise of “Becoming, never being.” Over time, his verse simplified, crystalized, with Kunitz once observing that he had learned to “strip the water out of my poems.”

29. A Moment With ... Stanley Kunitz, Poet stanley kunitz was a good poet till his 70s, when he became a great one. Now 97, he s still crafting lean, deceptively simple verses whose lyricism and http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/92884_kunitz26.shtml

newsvinecat = '' Skip ads and navigation SPI MySeattlePix Reader Page ... Place an ad OAS_AD('Top'); newsvinecat = 'entertainment,books' Books Saturday, October 26, 2002 A moment with ... Stanley Kunitz, poet SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER STAFF Stanley Kunitz was a good poet till his 70s, when he became a great one. Now 97, he's still crafting lean, deceptively simple verses whose lyricism and emotional resonance are enormous. He won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1959 and the National Book Award in 1995, when he was 90. In 2000, he served as the nation's poet laureate. He lives in New York City and Provincetown, Mass., with his wife of 45 years, the painter/poet Elise Asher. Kunitz Tonight at 7:30 at 130 Kane Hall, University of Washington, Kunitz will read from his work and discuss his life in poetry. Suggested donation is $10, to benefit Counterbalance Poetry. Last year, you said nobody should expect you to traipse around the country giving readings, and yet you're flying to Seattle for one. Why? I have a special fondness for Seattle. My dear friend Theodore Roethke taught at the University of Washington, and when he took a sabbatical leave in Italy in the 1950s, I filled in for him and had a lovely time. What would you say is your central theme?

30. Stanley Kunitz On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online 44 copies, 0 review; The poems of stanley kunitz, 19281978 15 copies, 0 review; Essential Blake There are 4 conversations about stanley kunitz s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/kunitzstanley

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31. Stanley Kunitz Named Poet Laureate Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced the appointment of stanley kunitz to be the Library s 10th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-103.html

Public Affairs Office 101 Independence Ave. SE Washington DC 20540-1610 tel (202) 707-2905 fax (202) 707-9199 email pao@loc.gov For release: Monday, July 31, 2000 Contact: Craig D'Ooge (202) 707-9189 Librarian of Congress Appoints Stanley Kunitz Poet Laureate Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced the appointment of Stanley Kunitz to be the Library's 10th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (photo at left by Ted Rosenberg) . He will take up his duties in the fall, opening the Library's annual literary series in October with a reading of his work. Mr. Kunitz succeeds Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, Howard Nemerov, Mark Strand, Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn, Rita Dove, Robert Hass, and Robert Pinsky. Of his appointment, Dr. Billington said, "Stanley Kunitz is a creative poet in his 95th year, having published his first volume of poetry in 1930. He continues to be a mentor and model for several generations of poets, and he brings to the office of Poet Laureate a lifetime of commitment to poetry that is a source of inspiration and admiration for us all. We derive enormous pleasure from his willingness to serve as the nation's 10th Poet Laureate, bringing to bear his unparalleled knowledge of 20th century poetry as we enter the 21st century." Stanley Kunitz, who served as Consultant in Poetry at the Library from 1974 to 1976 (before the title was changed to "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" with the passage in 1985 of PL 99-194), was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905 and educated at Harvard. His 10 books of poetry include

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33. Enchilada's Blog: Happy 100th, Stanley Kunitz! Happy 100th, stanley kunitz! stanley kunitz is one of America s greatest living poets still living, in fact, on his one hundredth birthday today. http://enchiladasblog.blogspot.com/2005/08/happy-100th-stanley-kunitz.html

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34. Stanley Kunitz --  Britannica Student Encyclopaedia stanley kunitz (19052006). US poet stanley kunitz was noted for his subtle craftsmanship and his treatment of complex themes. http://student.britannica.com/ebi/article-9328636

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35. The Collected Poems Of Stanley Kunitz Even before his appointment this summer as the US Poet Laureate, stanley kunitz’s name had long been known to readers who hadn’t seen many of kunitz’s poems http://bostonreview.net/BR25.6/burt.html

CURRENT ISSUE table of contents FEATURES new democracy forum new fiction forum poetry fiction ... archives ABOUT US masthead mission rave reviews contests ... advertising SERVICES bookstore locator literary links subscribe Search this site or the web Powered by FreeFind Site Web The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz by Steven Burt Collected So bear with me, and if I thrash and groan In the throes of sleep believe me that I saw The great fish tunneling the purple sea, Earth-darkening bird that harries man alone. When the early poems address his father they do so with stilted melancholy: "Father, the darkness of the self goes out / And spreads contagion on the flowing air." Another poem tells its beloved: "Listen! we make a world! I hear the sound / Of Matter pouring through eternal forms." Kunitz’s contemporaries–from Dylan Thomas to Richard Wilbur–could work with high diction in "eternal forms" and still sound like they meant it; Kunitz seems to have discovered that he could not, even as his last work in his old high way, 1958’s

36. PAL: Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) A Celebration for stanley kunitz on his eightieth birthday. Riverdaleon-Hudson, NY Sheep Meadow Press ; NY NY Distributed by Persea Books, 1986. http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/kunitz.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) Modern American Poetry: SK Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present MLA Style Citation of this Web Page ... Home Page Source: Poets.org Primary Works Selected poems, 1928-1958. Boston, Little, Brown, 1958. PS3521.U7 A17 The testing-tree; poems. Boston, Little, Brown, 1971. PS3521.U7 T4 A kind of order, a kind of folly: essays and conversations. Boston: Little, Brown, 1975 PS3521 U7 K5 The Lincoln relics: a poem. Port Townsend, Wash.: Graywolf Press, 1978. PS3521.U7 L5 The poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979. PS3521.U7 P6 A Celebration for Stanley Kunitz: on his eightieth birthday. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press ; NY: NY: Distributed by Persea Books, 1986. PS 3521 .U7 Z6 Passing through: the later poems, new and selected. NY: W.W. Norton, 1995. PS3521 .U7 P27

37. Stanley Kunitz (The Poet And The Poem) - Winter 2001 Feature The Poet and The Poem stanley kunitz An interview and reading with poetry legend, stanley kunitz. Grace Cavalieri hosts this onehour audio program. http://www.cortlandreview.com/features/01/12/index.html

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38. One Hundred Years Of Plenitude - The Boston Globe PROVINCETOWN In a corner chair on a hot day, with his famous garden below the window, stanley kunitz sits and pushes forward the words, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/07/28/one_hundred_years_of

Today's Globe Local Opinion Politics ... Living / Arts One hundred years of plenitude For Stanley Kunitz, poetry is part of the rhythm of life July 28, 2005 PROVINCETOWN In a corner chair on a hot day, with his famous garden below the window, Stanley Kunitz sits and pushes forward the words, with all his strength. Each comes slowly, and just when it seems he has lost his train of thought, the next word emerges, and the result is a distilled idea about life, poetry, the world. Kunitz turns 100 tomorrow, and his centenary has been or soon will be celebrated in New York, in his hometown of Worcester, and here in Provincetown, where he has spent summers for decades. His new book, ''The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden," with Genine Lentine and with photographs by Marnie Crawford Samuelson, is a kind of valedictory for a life spent, as Kunitz once put it, ''caught in the dangerous traffic between self and the universe." In his time, Kunitz seems to have known or had contact with practically everyone of note in the poetry world. He has also won virtually every prize and honor, and propelled or redirected the careers of dozens of poets. He won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and served as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1976 and again from 2000 to 2001, at age 95, after the position was renamed poet laureate. His writer friends included Theodore Roethke, e.e. cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell. He knew Ogden Nash and Marianne Moore. In the '60s, he met Joseph Brodsky in Russia, years before he was exiled to America, won the Nobel Prize, and became the poet laureate. Many of the poets he chose in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series, which he edited during the '60s and '70s, became famous. Two of his proteges, Robert Hass and Louise Gluck, became poets laureate.

39. Wrestling The Angel: Profile: Stanley Kunitz My husband Shawn and I have been devotees of US poet laureate stanley kunitz ever since we found his moving work The Layers several years ago. http://www.wrestlingtheangel.com/archives/000534.html

Get Blog Posts by E-mail Enter your e-mail address Powered by FeedBlitz RSS Feeds Recent Entries Interview: Justine Larbalestier The Elusive Agent Will Write for Chocolate Jane Jeong Trenka: Why She Writes ... Writing Is Strange and Scary Articles From the Stage to the Page An Interview with Annette Gilson Main August 16, 2006 Profile: Stanley Kunitz ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: You said, actually, once, that you felt you were predestined to become a poet. What do you mean by that? STANELY KUNITZ: My family, fortunately, had an extensive library, and that was a rare phenomenon in those days. One of the prized volumes in that library was an unabridged dictionary. And I used to sit in that green Morris chair and open the heavy dictionary on my lap, and find a new word every day. It was a big word, a word like "eleemosynary" or "phantasmagoria" some word that, on the tongue, sounded great to me, and I would go out into the fields and I would shout those words, because it was so important that they sounded so great to me. And then eventually I began incorporating them into verses, into poems. But certainly my thought in the ... in the beginning was that there was so much joy playing with language that I couldn't consider living without it. from a PBS interview My husband Shawn and I have been devotees of US poet laureate Stanley Kunitz ever since we found his moving work "The Layers" several years ago. We were saddened to hear of his death this past May, at the advanced age of 100. From all accounts, he was a devoted poet and a generous mentor and editor.

40. Stanley Kunitz Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905, America s tenth poet laureate was the sone of an immigrant from Lithuania who committed suicide in a public park a http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/poets/kunitz.php

Poets of Cambridge, U.S.A. Other Poets Henry Adams John Quincy Adams James Agee Conrad Aiken ... Jones Very Amazon Note: You will help our service to grow when you order anything from Amazon via our non-profit website: HarvardSquareLibrary.org Click Here to visit Amazon now Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905, America's tenth poet laureate was the sone of an immigrant from Lithuania who committed suicide in a public park a few weeks before his son's birth, after his dress-making business was bankrupt. His mother began a dry-goods shop. His beloved step-father died when Stanley was fourteen. At the classical High School education in Worcester, Kunitz's love of poetry (by Keats, Wordsworth, and William Blake) began. Then at Harvard he learned that despite his honors at graduation, he discovered that he would not be able to teach the Anglo-Saxon students because he was Jewish. The first Kunitz book of poewms, Intellectual Things , 1930, was ignored, followed fourteen years later by Passport to War . However, after another fourteen years, his

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