The
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Stanley Kunitz
(1905- )
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Poet Stanley Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts,
in 1905. He received his bachelor's (1926) and master's (1927) degrees
from Harvard. After graduation he worked as a reporter and editor for a
newspaper in Worcester. He published his first book of poetry, Intellectual
Things in 1930. Kunitz served stateside in the army during World
War II. After the war, he took a job teaching at Bennington College. He
taught writing at Columbia University for 22 years. Kunitz served
as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1974-1976 and was
a founder of the Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets
House in New York City. He won the 1959 Pulitzer Prize in for Selected
Poems, 1928-1958 and the National Book Award in 1995 for Passing
Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995) . Kunitzwas
awarded the National Medal of the Arts in 1993 and was named Poet
Laureate of the United States in 2000. Kunitz currently lives with
his wife, painter Elise Asher, in Greenwich Village, New York and in
Provincetown, Massachusetts. Works include: Passport
to the War (1940); The Testing-Tree (1971); The Poems of
Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978; Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays
(1985); and The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000).
He has also co-translated Orchard Lamps by Ivan Drach (1978); Story
Under Full Sail by Andrei Voznesensky (1974); and Poems of Akhmatova
(1973); and edited The Essential Blake (1987); Poems of John
Keats (1964); and The Yale Series of Younger Poets (1969-77). |
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