
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz ( /ˈkjuːnɪts/; 29 July 1905 – 14 May 2006) was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000. Kunitz was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to dressmaker, Solomon Z. Kunitz and Lithuanian-Jewish mother, Yetta Helen Jasspon. His father committed suicide six weeks before he was born, and Kunitz was raised by his mother and stepfather, Mark Dine, who died when Kunitz was fourteen.
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King of the River
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Benediction
The Portrait
The Quarrel
Geometry of Moods
So Intricately Is This World Resolved
The Waltzer in the House
The Old Darned Man
End of Summer
Quinnapoxet
Intro To The Snakes Of September
The Round
River
A Choice Of Weapons
The Dragonfly
The Tutored Child
Poets.org Postcast
The Abduction
The Image Maker
Intro To My Mother's Pears
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My Sisters
The Snakes Of September
The Long Boat
My Mother's Pears
Proteus
God's Grandeur
King Of The
Night Letter
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Stanley Kunitz: Essential American Poets Archival recordings of former poet laureate Stanley Kunitz, with an introduction to his life and work. Recorded 2001, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
The Daughters of the Horse Leech
Introduction by Stanley Kunitz
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