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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453461303321

Autore

Kunitz Stanley <1905-2006, >

Titolo

Conversations with Stanley Kunitz / / edited by Kent P. Ljungquist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

1-62103-970-6

1-61703-870-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Collana

Literary conversations series

Disciplina

811/.52

B

Soggetti

Poets, American - 20th century

Poetry - Authorship

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chronology; Pulitzer Prize Poet Stanley Kunitz Started Career in Worcester; Communication and Communion: A Dialogue between Stanley Kunitz and Allen Tate; The Poet in the Classroom; Presenting the Poet: Stanley Kunitz; An Interview with Stanley Kunitz; Stanley Kunitz on "The Science of the Night"; Interview with Stanley Kunitz; Poetry in the Classroom: A Symposium with Marvin Bell, Donald Hall, and Stanley Kunitz; Stanley Kunitz: Action and Incantation; An Interview with Stanley Kunitz; Stanley Kunitz on the Labyrinth of Forms and the Turning of Worms

A Dialogue with Stanley KunitzInterview: Stanley Kunitz; An Interview with Stanley Kunitz; Stanley Kunitz: An Interview; Stanley Kunitz: "The Gifts of the Heart Are Always Added to Our Store"; An Interview with Stanley Kunitz; An Interview with Stanley Kunitz; Openhearted: Stanley Kunitz and Mark Wunderlich in Conversation; The Productions of Time: Kunitz on Blake; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

""He again tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity."" That's what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry. The



interviews and conversations contained in this volume derive from four decades of Kunitz's distinguished career. They touch on aesthetic motifs in his poetry, the roots of his work, his friendships in the sister arts of painting and sculpture, his interactions with Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and his comments on a host of poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, Wallace Ste