The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978

by Stanley Kunitz

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316507113
• ISBN13: 9780316507110
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 249 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Poetry with Heart

The poetry of Stanley Kunitz can be heart-wrenching. I like some of the poems in The Testing-Tree (1971) even though he wears his heart on his sleeve. Such easy sentiment should not move me, but somehow it does. "Journal for My Daughter" is so sappy unless you have actually raised a daughter whom you love. "Heart" seems to be his favorite word. It is in every poem in fact or in spirit.

why is this book out of print?

Other books by Kunitz are occasionally available, but there are some poems - like "The Science of the Night" - that there is no other way to get. Kunitz has a luminous voice and writes some very good poetry. If you ever see this in a second-hand bookshop, you should snap it up.