Interviews and Encounters with Stanley Kunitz

In these interviews, conducted for the most part by leading young poets, we are given the full range of his thinking, his passion and wisdom, his private and public concerns. This book will be kept close at hand by young poets as a survival kit. Others who care about poetry and the life of the imagination will read and re-read this book to clear the head. Publishers Weekly recently saluted this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet as "a man who is both great and modest, the epitome of all we would wish our poets to be.

Stanley Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1905. After graduating from Harvard summa cum laude he began a long varied career as poet, editor, essayist, translator, gardener and teacher of poets. The honors for his poetry include the Pulitzer Prize, Bollingen Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Senior Fellowship, Brandeis Medal of Achievement, Harriet Monroe Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Foundation Award, and Leonore Marshall Prize. He served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress.