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The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz

By Stanley Kunitz

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| Hardcover | 9780393050301

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In the year of his ninety-fifth birthday, a volume celebrating the distinguished career of one of our most esteemed poets. In 1995, Stanley Kunitz received the National Book Award in Poetry for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected. The citation for the award read in part: "In hiContinue

In the year of his ninety-fifth birthday, a volume celebrating the distinguished career of one of our most esteemed poets. In 1995, Stanley Kunitz received the National Book Award in Poetry for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected. The citation for the award read in part: "In his genius, great clarity is joined to great generosity. His work shines with humanity, humor, precision, and passion." Now, combining both early and later poems, including Selected Poems (which won the Pulitzer Prize), Kunitz presents us with the gift of his life's work in poetry. The early poems, long unavailable in any edition, sound themes that have always engaged Kunitz: life's meaning, the relation of time to eternity, kinship with nature, and loss, most poignantly that of his father. Despite the power of his poems about loss, Kunitz ardently celebrates life. Perpetually curious, eager for fresh revelations, he fully lives up to his own advice to younger poets "to persevere, then explore. Be explorers all your life."

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    Reminded me again how much I dislike symbolism in poetry. Kunitz's poetry is nice enough but only gets its familiar quality in the later poems.

    Nice overview of his poetry though, and Kunitz's foreword makes me curious to read his prose.

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 288 Pages
  • Edition: 1st ed
  • ISBN-10: 0393050300
  • ISBN-13: 9780393050301
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Pub date: Oct 01, 2000
  • Dimensions: 1613 mm x 1032 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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