Conversations with Stanley Kunitz

“He again tops the crowd—he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity.” That''s what Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006) and his evolving artistry. The interviews and conversations contained in this volume derive from four decades of Kunitz''s distinguished career. They touch on aesthetic motifs in his poetry, the roots of his work, his frie...