Poems. Where do they come from? America's Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz knows. At the age of 96 he's still finding them: In the shape of a flower, in the long night of memory, in the sound of a spoken word. I listen. I am always listening, Kunitz writes. The poems of Stanley Kunitz span worlds now disappeared. He is, perhaps, the only poet still writing who remembers vividly the start of World War I and World War II, not to mention Greenwich Village in its many heydays, the twenties, the thirties, the fifties, the sixties. Through all that time Kunitz has lived a life based on the precept that poetry is the truest artifact of a civilization.
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Stanley Kunitz, Poet Laureate of the United States.
