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Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

Ljungquist, Kent P.
Kunitz, Stanley

Hardcover

Series: Literary Conversations

Literary FiguresFiction AnthologiesPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1617038709
ISBN13: 9781617038709
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Oct 29 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 Stevens, and Anna Akhmatova. Kunitz emerged from a mid-sized industrial town in central Massachusetts, surviving family tragedy and a sense of personal isolation and loneliness, to become an eloquent spokesman for poetry and for the power of the human imagination. Kunitz has commented, If we want to know what it felt like to be alive at any given moment in the long odyssey of the race, it is to poetry we must turn. His own odyssey from metaphysical loneliness to a sense of community with fellow writers and artists--by building institutions like Poets House and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts--is ever present in these interviews. Kent P. Ljungquist, Jefferson, Massachusetts, is a professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the editor of Antebellum Authors in New York and the author of The Grand and the Fair: Poe's Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques.

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