Websites
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Here's a comprehensive biography as well as links to forty poems.
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Check out another source for background info with poems to check out.
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Here's one more resourceful website with a bio, quotes, and poems.
Video
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Here's an awesome video of Kunitz reading his work accompanied by an equally awesome quote concerning his take on poetry. (The likeness to Yoda... can you see it?)
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This video interview and reading with Gregory Orr is a must see.
Audio
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Is it everything you hoped for?
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This NPR page provides "The Long Boat" in audio and text formats. Before Stanley starts to read, he says, "Everybody knows I'm not a youngster… and that's all right with me." Priceless.
Images
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This is how real writers used to get it done.
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Okay, okay, let's be fair. This pic is pre-nineties—pre-ninety years old that is.
Articles and Interviews
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Here's a Paris Review interview from 1977 with Chris Busa.
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This article from The Atlantic captures Kunitz as a visionary.
Books
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Check out The Collected Poems, last reprinted in 2002, including "The Layers."
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Want more? Here's another book of his collected works.
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Kunitz is in his element. Check out these reflective, wise poems centered around nature.