The Quarantine Tapes: Quotation Shorts - Stanley Kunitz
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On July 29, 1905, Stanley Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. About his own work, Kunitz has said: “The poem comes in the form of a blessing—‘like rapture breaking on the mind,’ as I tried to phrase it in my youth. Through the years I have found this gift of poetry to be life-sustaining, life-enhancing, and absolutely unpredictable. Does one live, therefore, for the sake of poetry? No, the reverse is true: poetry is for the sake of the life.”
Kunitz published his first book of poetry, Intellectual Things, in 1930. Fourteen years later, he published his second book, Passport to War. His recent books include: The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (W. W. Norton, 2000); Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995), which won the National Book Award; Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985); The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978, which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; The Testing-Tree (1971); and Selected Poems, 1928-1958, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
His honors include the Bollingen Prize, a Ford Foundation grant, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, Harvard's Centennial Medal, the Levinson Prize, the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, a senior fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Medal of the Arts, and the Shelley Memorial Award. In 2000 he was named United States Poet Laureate. Kunitz was deeply committed to fostering community among artists, and was a founder of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets House in New York City. 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.
From https://poets.org/poet/stanley-kunitz
For more information about Stanley Kunitz:
“‘I Have Walked Through Many Lives’: Listen to Stanley Kunitz read his poem ‘The Layers’”: https://lithub.com/i-have-walked-through-many-lives-listen-to-stanley-kunitz-read-his-poem-the-layers/
“Stanley Kunitz, The Art of Poetry No. 29”: https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3185/the-art-of-poetry-no-29-stanley-kunitz
“Poet Stanley Kunitz at 100”:
https://www.npr.org/2005/07/29/4776898/poet-stanley-kunitz-at-100
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