Interviews and Encounters With Stanley Kunitz - Hardcover

Kunitz, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0935296794 ISBN 13: 9780935296792

Publisher: Sheep Meadow Pr, 1993

Synopsis

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.

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 Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0935296794
• ISBN 13: 9780935296792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 241
• Editor: Moss Stanley