Conversations with Stanley Kunitz - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496809610 ISBN 13 : 9781496809612

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2016

Synopsis

Robert Lowell said of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz (1905-2006) and his evolving artistry, "He again tops the crowd--he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity." 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 friendships in the sister arts of painting and sculpture, his interactions with Lowell and Theodore Roethke, and his comments on a host of poets: John Keats, Walt Whitman, Randall Jarrell, Wallace Stevens, and Anna Akhmatova.

Kunitz emerged from a mid-sized industrial town in central Massachusetts, surviving family tragedy and a sense of personal isolation and loneliness, to become an eloquent spokesman for poetry and for the power of the human imagination. Kunitz has commented, "If we want to know what it felt like to be alive at any given moment in the long odyssey of the race, it is to poetry we must turn." His own odyssey from "metaphysical loneliness" to a sense of community with fellow writers and artists--by building institutions like Poets House and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts--is ever present in these interviews.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kent P. Ljungquist is professor of English at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is editor of Antebellum Authors in New York and author of The Grand and the Fair: Poe's Landscape Aesthetics and Pictorial Techniques.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496809610
• ISBN 13: 9781496809612
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Éditeur: Ljungquist Kent P.
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