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Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (born July 29, 1905) is a noted American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000.

Contents 1 Life 2 Career 3 Bibliography 4 External Links

Life

Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he grew up. He graduated from Harvard University, receiving a BA in 1926 and an MA in 1927. In his early twenties he published his first work. He moved to New York, taking a job with the H. W. Wilson company as an editor of the Wilson Library Bulletin. At this time he also began a collaborative work with Howard Haycraft on four important biographical dictionaries of English and American authors. His first book of poems, Intellectual Things (1930) was barely recognized, and Kunitz did not publish his second book, Passport to War, for another fourteen years. The Second World War interrupted his career as editor, and when he was released from the army he joined the faculty of Bennington College, the first of several academic jobs. Real recognition came slowly to Kunitz, culminating in his receiving the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 for his first Selected Poems. Kunitz's poetry has won praise from all circles as being profound and well-written. He continues to write and publish work as of 2005 at the age of 100. Many believe his poetry's symbolism is influenced significantly by the work of Carl Jung. Kunitz has himself been an influence on many 20th century poets, including James Wright.

Kunitz was married to the late artist Elise Asher. He splits his time between Greenwich Village in New York City and Provincetown, Massachusetts. In his spare time, he enjoys gardening and maintains an impressive seaside garden in Provincetown.

Career

His book Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995) won the National Book Award. Kunitz has been the recipient of many other honors, including the 1959 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, a National Medal of the Arts, Harvard's Centennial Medal, and a term as the state poet of New York State. He founded the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Poets House in New York City. He also taught for many years in the graduate writing program at Columbia University. He is considered by many observers to be the most distinguished and accomplished living poet in the United States.

Bibliography

• The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (2005)
• The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000)
• Passing Through, The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995)
• Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985)
• The Poems of Stanley Kunitz (1928-1978) (1978)
• The Testing-Tree (1971)
• Selected Poems, 1928-1958 (1958)
• Passport to the War (1940)
• Intellectual Things (1930)

External Links

• Stanley Kunitz's page at "The Academy of American Poets"
• On Kunitz’s Touch Me

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