Stanley Kunitz

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born

July 29, 1905 in Worcester, Massachusetts, The United States

died

May 14, 2006

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Poetry

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Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was a noted American poet who served two years (1974–1976) as the 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.

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Average rating: 4.29 · 858 ratings · 97 reviews · 33 distinct works

	The Collected Poems 4.24 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Stanley Kunitz, Marnie Crawford Samuelson (Photographer), Genine Lentine 4.51 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected 4.20 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Next-To-Last Things: New Poems and Essays 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems, 1928-1958 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1958	My rating:
	Interviews and Encounters by Stanley Kunitz, Stanley Moss (Editor) 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Testing Tree 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1971	My rating:
	Poems of Akhmatova by Anna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz (Translator), Max Hayward (Translator) 4.40 avg rating — 1,417 ratings — published 1973 — 14 editions	My rating:
	A Kind of Order, a Kind of Folly: Essays and Conversations 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.”
― Stanley Kunitz

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“I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.”
― Stanley Kunitz

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“The heart breaks and breaks
and lives by breaking
it is necessary to go through
dark and deeper dark
and not to turn ”
― Stanley Kunitz, The Testing Tree

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