Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

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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.