Stanley Kunitz

The American poet, teacher, and editor Kunitz was born in Worcester, Mass. He was the child of immigrants, a Russian Sephardic Jewish father who committed suicide weeks before Kunitz was born, and a Lithuanian mother, Yetta

Summing-up, The

by Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006)

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When young I scribbled, boasting, on my wall,

No Love, No Property, No Wages.

In youth's good time I somehow bought them all,

And cheap, you'd think, for maybe a hundred pages.

Now in my prime, disburdened of my gear,

My trophies ransomed, broken, lost,

I carve again on the lintel of the year

My sign: Mobility —and damn the cost!

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Stanley Kunitz born, 1905

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What famous American poet did Ernest Hemingway get into a fist fight with?

Answer

Wallace Stevens. The scuffle occurred in the Florida Keys in 1936, and it's hard to know what it was about other than both were drunk. Hemingway boasted in a letter that he: "knocked all of him down several times and gave him a good beating." He was 36 and Stevens was 56.

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