Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 - May 14, 2006) was an American poet.

Stanley Kunitz
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BornStanley Jasspon Kunitz
(1905-07-29)July 29, 1905
Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMay 14, 2006(2006-05-14) (aged 100)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationPoet
Alma materHarvard College
Notable awards
Spouses
  • Helen Pearce (1930–1937; divorced)
  • Elanor Evans (1937–1958; divorced)
  • Elise Asher (1958–2004; her death)

Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905.[1]

He went to Harvard College. He got his bachelor's degree in 1926 and a master's degree in 1927. After being in the U. S. Army during World War II, he was a teacher at Bennington College in Vermont, then Columbia, Yale, Princeton, Rutgers, and the University of Washington.[1]

In 1959, he won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Selected Poems 1928-1958. In 1995, he won the National Book Award for Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected.[2]

He was the U.S. Consultant in Poetry from 1974 to 1976. And he was the U.S. Poet Laureate for 2000-2001.[2]

He was 100 years old when he died in New York City in 2006.[1]

Books

  • Intellectual Things (1930)
  • Passport to the War (1944)
  • Selected Poems, 1928-1958 (1958)
  • The Testing-Tree (1971)
  • The Terrible Threshold : Selected Poems, 1940-1970 (1974
  • The Coat Without a Seam: Sixty Poems 1930-1972 (1974) )
  • The Poems of Stanley Kunitz (1928–1978) (1978)
  • The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems (1983)
  • Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985)
  • Passing Through, The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995)
  • The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000)
  • The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (2005)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About Stanley Kunitz | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Stanley Kunitz". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2023-03-12.