Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

✍ Scribed by Kunitz, Stanley;Ljungquist, Kent P

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Series: Literary conversations series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.;""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 Steve.

✦ Table of Contents

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
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✦ Subjects

LITERARY COLLECTIONS--American--General;LITERARY CRITICISM--Poetry;Poets, American--20th century;Poetry--Authorship;Poets, American;Biography;Interviews;;Kunitz, Stanley, -- 1905-2006 -- Interviews;Poets, American -- 20th century -- Interviews;Poetry -- Authorship;LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry;LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- American -- General;Kunitz, Stanley, -- 1905-2006