Kunitz, Stanley

Kunitz, Stanley (Jasspon)

(born July 29, 1905, Worcester, Mass., U.S.—died May 14, 2006, New York, N.Y.) U.S. poet. He worked as an editor while contributing verse to magazines; much of it was collected in volumes such as Selected Poems 1928–1958 (1958, Pulitzer Prize). With The Testing-Tree (1971), he began to write shorter, looser, more emotional poetry. Among his later collections, noted for their subtle craftsmanship and treatment of complex themes, are The Coat Without a Seam (1974), The Lincoln Relics (1978), Next-to-Last Things (1985), and Passing Through (1995). He was also U.S. poet laureate twice (1974–76, 2000–01).

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Kunitz, Stanley (Jasspon) (1905–  ) poet, editor; born in Worcester, Mass. He studied at Harvard (B.A. 1926; M.A. 1927), and taught at many institutions, notably Columbia beginning in 1967. He is known for his finely crafted poetry, as in Poems 1928–1978 (1979), and his editorship of reference works on American and European literature.