Dec 25, 2009
At age ninety-five, Stanley Kunitz published The Collected Poems, his twelfth book of poetry, and what a splendid volume it is. Furthermore, just a few months before The Collected Poems came out, Kunitz was appointed the nation’s tenth poet laureate. Still, according to Dinitia Smith’s August 2, 2000, article in The New York Times, he hoped to get at least one more book out “in this millennium.” That Kunitz deserves recognition, however, for more than just a very active—and certainly remarkable—longevity as a man and as a poet is amply demonstrated by...
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