Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905 - May 14, 2006) was an American poet.
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| Born | Stanley Jasspon Kunitz July 29, 1905 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | May 14, 2006 (aged 100) New York City, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
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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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About Stanley Kunitz | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Stanley Kunitz". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
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