Download e-book for iPad: Conversations with Stanley Kunitz (Literary Conversations by Kent P. Ljungquist

By Kent P. Ljungquist

ISBN-10: 1496809610

ISBN-13: 9781496809612

ISBN-10: 1617038709

ISBN-13: 9781617038709

"He back tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the previous iron delivered to the white warmth of simplicity." that is what Robert Lowell acknowledged of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained during this quantity derive from 4 a long time of Kunitz's exceptional occupation. They contact on aesthetic motifs in his poetry, the roots of his paintings, his friendships within the sister arts of portray and sculpture, his interactions with Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and his reviews on a bunch of poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, Wallace Stevens, and Anna Akhmatova.

Kunitz emerged from a mid-sized business city in critical Massachusetts, surviving kinfolk tragedy and a feeling of non-public isolation and loneliness, to develop into an eloquent spokesman for poetry and for the ability of the human mind's eye. Kunitz has commented, "If we wish to comprehend what it felt wish to be alive at any given second within the lengthy odyssey of the race, it truly is to poetry we needs to turn." His personal odyssey from "metaphysical loneliness" to a feeling of neighborhood with fellow writers and artists--by development associations like Poets condo and the high quality Arts paintings heart in Provincetown, Massachusetts--is ever found in those interviews.

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