Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon

Kunitz, Stanley Jasspon
▪ 2007

      American poet (b. July 29, 1905, Worcester, Mass.—d. May 14, 2006, New York, N.Y.), was noted for his subtle craftsmanship and his treatment of complex themes. Kunitz attended Harvard University (B.A.,1926; M.A., 1927). While working as an editor, he contributed poems to magazines, and he eventually compiled them in his first book, Intellectual Things (1930). He served for two years in the army during World War II, after which he taught at several universities. His collection Passport to the War (1944), like his first book, contained meticulously crafted, intellectual verse. Most of the poems from these first two works were reprinted with some 30 new poems in Selected Poems 1928–1958 (1958), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1959. With The Testing-Tree (1971), Kunitz departed from the formal structure and rational approach of his earlier verse and wrote shorter, looser, and more emotional poetry. Included in the book were “The Illumination,” a compact poem about life's regrets, and “King of the River,” contemplating the nature of mystery. His later books of poetry included The Terrible Threshold (1974), The Coat Without a Seam (1974), The Lincoln Relics (1978), The Poems of Stanley Kunitz (1979), The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems (1983), and Next-to-Last Things (1985), containing essays as well as verse. The poetry collection Passing Through (1995) won a National Book Award. The Collected Poems (2000) presented Kunitz's lifework. Kunitz also edited literary anthologies and cotranslated Russian writers Andrey Voznesensky and Anna Akhmatova and Ukrainian Ivan Drach. He served as consultant in poetry (now poet laureate consultant in poetry) to the Library of Congress from 1974 to 1976 and from 2000 to 2001. His other awards included the Bollingen Prize (1987) and the National Medal of Arts (1993).

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