num_pages: 249
description: Kunitz's intellectual power and passionate authority have placed him in the first rank of contemporary poetry. "A reassureance a to what poetry can be in these times," wrote Richard Wilbur of The Testing-Tree in 1971. "There is no limiting oddity of style or attack, but a whole nature open to the sweetness and anguish of things."The Poems of Stanley Kunitz 1928-1978 contains a score of new poems and collects almost all his past Intellectual Things, Passport to the War, Selected Poems (which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1959), and The Testing-Tree .The new poems are visionary, transparent in their simplicity. They recall Robert Lowell's "In these later poems he again tops the crowd - he surpasses himself, the old iron brought to the white heat of simplicity."
language: English
title: The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978
titlecomplete: The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 38
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, awardedAt: 315561600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Poetry
publisher: Little, Brown