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The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (W. W. Norton, 2000)
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Passing Through
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The Later Poems, New and Selected (1995)
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Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (1985)
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The Poems of Stanley Kunitz (1928-1978)
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Passport to the War (1940)
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Selected Poems, 1928-1958, which won the Pulitzer Prize
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The Testing-Tree (1971)
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Intellectual Things (1930)
Biography of Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz was a well-established poet throughout the United States of America. He is 97 years old and is still writing. He creates poetry about his father’s suicide when he was still in his mother’s womb. He tries to combine death with life in his very own creative style. Kunitz is able to mix death with the emotions of other people. He combines death also with the physical feelings of the time in which the person died. He is a gifted writer who has the ability to relate terrible things to normal times. Kunitz has the ability to relate tragic times and terrible events to the normal lifestyle of a human being.
Kunitz, a native of Worcester, Massachusetts, now lives in the big city of Manhattan. Stanley Kunitz was born in 1905 and is still a very strong writer. As critics have said “Most poets dry up by the age of 50. Stanley is still writing strong at the age of 90.” This shows that Kunitz hasn’t lost his talents of creating symbolic poems that relate death to life. Stanley Kunitz has written The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (W. W. Norton, 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), Passport to the War (1940), Selected Poems, 1928-1958, which won the Pulitzer Prize, The Testing-Tree (1971), Intellectual Things (1930). All of these poems or works by Kunitz have inspired young writers everywhere.
Kunitz has many different poems all having different ways to introduce the emotions of life. Kunitz got started editing the school newspaper at his high school in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Kunitz received his B.A. and his M.A. at Harvard University. His youngest work attracted few people and was not very successful. After being called to service in World War Two he continued to write. After World War Two, Kunitz started to attract people. He has grown from there into the inspiring poet that he is today. In 2000 Kunitz was named U.S. poet laureate.
Kunitz now lives with his artist-wife Eline Ascher in New York. He continues to write poetry and inspire young writers of all kinds.