Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz
Published on 27. May 2011
Book
Hardback
246 pages
978-0-935296-79-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Riverdale
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-935296-79-2 (9780935296792)
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Persons
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."
Content
Contents Introduction - Stanley Moss ix A Tribute - Marie Howe xv Language Suprised - David Lupher (1968) 1 Speaking of Craft - William Packard (1970) 10 Tongues of Fallen Angels - Selden Rodman (1971) 19 Myths and Monsters - Cynthia Davis (1972) 31 Imagine Wrestling with an Angel - Robert Boyers (1972) 44 Periodicity - Michael Ryan (1974) 56 The Taste of Self - Christopher Busa (1977) 68 Living the layers of Time - Richard Jackson (1978) 92 Translating Anna Akhmatova - Daniel Weissbort (1982) 99 The Poet in His Garden - Christopher Busa (1984) 117 The Buried Life - Caroline Sutton (1985) 123 Life between Scylla and Charybdis - Michael Ryan (1985) 128 To My Teacher - Louise Gluck (1985) 137 Lighting the Lamp - francine Ringold (1986) 141 A Visit to the POet's Studio - Susan Mitchell (1988) 144 Dancing on the Edge of the Road - Bill Moyers (1989) 155 Roots and Place - Jonathan Blunk and Fran Quinn (1989) 165 Transcending the Self - Grace Schulman (1990) 179 'I'm Not Sleepy' - Esther Harriott (1990) 185 Appendix: A Sampling of Poems Discussed in the Text 193 Biographical Note 227 Contributor's Note 227 Bibliography 231 Index 237