New Titles

Browsing New Titles

We have 6 items with all of the following terms:
Click [x] to remove a term, or use the facets in the sidebar to narrow your search. What are facets? Results sorted by the date added to the collection.

 

The Collected Poems

  • [bookjacket|The Collected Poems]

  • Attribution

    Stanley Kunitz

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2000

  • Description

    Stanley Kunitz's collected poems are an unassailable argument for age, experience, and impassioned observation. Kunitz's “Reflections,” which preface his Collected Poems, offer several modest credos. Perhaps thinking himself “a fierce young crier / Of poems,” the youthful Kunitz pursued the sublime a little too relentlessly. Several of Kunitz's finest, and most desolate, poems explore his father's suicide, which took place before he was born. After a quarrel, Kunitz suggests to his wife that they head for the Cape, taking with them those passions “that flare past understanding”: we can stow them in the rear along with ziggurats of luggage and Celia, our transcendental cat, past-mistress of all languages, including Hottentot and silence. Reconciliation, Kunitz knows, isn't possible, but his work proves that the raptures of love and art are a strong consolation. summarized from Amazon.com

  • Tags

  • Availability

    [availability|tl34696000123617]

Comments (0)

July 30th is Stanley Kunitz’s Birthday

Stanley Kunitz was much revered by poets everywhere. He had a way with language and sensibility that was unique. From today’s Writer’s Almanac,
It’s the birthday of the poet Stanley Kunitz, (books by this author) born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1905. He attended Harvard University, where he wanted to teach in the English department, but [...]

By Jay | July 30, 2008 – 2:50 pm | Comments (0)

Poems Of Akhmatova

Comments (0)

Passing Through : The Later Poems, New And Selected

  • [bookjacket|Passing Through : The Later Poems, New And Selected]

  • Attribution

    Stanley Kunitz

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    1995

  • Description

    The poem details a child finding a portrait of his dead father, a portrait that opens old wounds (”My mother never forgave my father / for killing himself”) even as new wounds are being formed. summarized from Amazon.com

  • Tags

  • Availability

    [availability|tl34696000172002]

Comments (0)

New poetry books for April

We have purchased several new books at the library to celebrate April as Poetry Month.
One is called “Zoli” by Colum McCann. It is a work of fiction, but closely follows the life of Papusza, aka Bronislawa Wajs, a Polish Romani poet, who was both gifted and beautiful. It was very unusual for a Gypsy girl [...]

By Jay | March 28, 2007 – 1:25 pm | Comments (0)

The Virgin Of Bennington

Comments (0)