Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz - Softcover

Kunitz, Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0935296808 ISBN 13: 9780935296808

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press, 1993

Synopsis

In these interviews, conducted for the most part by leading young poets, we are given the full range of his thinking, his passion and wisdom, his private and public concerns. This book 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 this book to clear the head. Publishers Weekly recently saluted this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet as "a man who is both great and modest, the epitome of all we would wish our poets to be.

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sheep Meadow Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0935296808
• ISBN 13: 9780935296808
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Moss Stanley