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Stanley Kunitz was born on July 29, 1905, in Worcester, Massachusetts. His parents, Yetta Helen and Solomon Z. Kunitz, both Eastern European immigrants, owned and operated a dress manufacturing company in Worcester. After graduating from Classical High School, Kunitz left Worcester to attend Harvard University. In 1926 he received his bachelor's degree with highest honors and was also awarded the Garrison Medal for Poetry by the University. Kunitz remained in Cambridge to earn a master's degree, which he completed in 1927. At this time, Kunitz returned to Worcester, where he worked as a feature reporter for the daily newspaper, The Worcester Telegram ; however, Kunitz grew weary of his hometown rather quickly and so left for New York City in 1928 in search of more interesting prospects.
In New York City Kunitz secured a position at the H. W. Wilson Company, where he edited, either alone or collaboratively, seven reference works of literary biography and the Wilson Library Bulletin . Kunitz's first H. W. Wilson book, Living Authors: A Book of Biographies , was published in 1931 under the pseudonym "Dilly Tante," and his final Wilson book, European Authors, 1000-1900 , was published in 1967. The H. W. Wilson Company offered Kunitz a great deal of freedom to pursue his literary interests. For instance, Kunitz was permitted to go abroad in 1929-1930, during which time he polished the poems (and worked on an unfinished novel) that would become, upon his return from Europe in 1930, his first published book of verse, Intellectual Things . Kunitz was also able to maintain his position at H. W. Wilson despite having relocated from New York City to a farm in Mansfield Center, Connecticut around 1931 with his first wife, Helen Pearce (married 1930-1937).
Although Kunitz continued to edit reference books for H. W. Wilson Company through the 1960s, he relinquished his position in 1943 when he was drafted into the U. S. Army. Initially Kunitz petitioned to be classified as a conscientious objector, but the Army denied his request, forcing Kunitz to serve in the military with the Air Transport Command for the duration of the war. During his enlistment, Kunitz published his second book of poetry, Passport to the War (1944), which was inspired by his wartime experiences.
After his release from the service in 1945, Kunitz lived briefly in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and then accepted his first teaching position at Bennington College in 1946. This was to be the first of many such positions for Kunitz, who continued to teach through the 1980s but remained determined to put writing before teaching, never accepting a tenure-track faculty position. He left Bennington College precipitously in 1949 after a dispute with an administrator and took a position at Potsdam State College (now SUNY College at Potsdam), Potsdam, New York, as the curriculum advisor to the English Department. Here, he also taught summer workshops from 1949 to 1953. During this brief (1949-1950) stay in Potsdam, Kunitz's second wife, Eleanor Evans (married 1939-1958) gave birth to their daughter, Gretchen.
In 1950 Kunitz again found himself in New York City, where he held numerous teaching positions at various universities, colleges, and institutions, including The New School for Social Research (1950-1957), the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA (1958-1962), Queens College (1956-1957), and Columbia University as a lecturer (1963-1966) and then as an adjunct professor of writing (1967-1985). He also held teaching positions further afield in such places as the University of Washington, where he was the poet-in-residence (1955-1956), Brandeis University (1958-1959), Yale University (1971, fellow since 1969), Rutgers University (1974), and Princeton University (1978-1979). In 1958 he married the painter and poet Elise Asher (1912-2004), with whom he spent the rest of his life.
Aside from teaching, Kunitz was an active member of the greater literary community. In 1968 he helped found the Fine Arts Work Center, an artists' colony in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and continued to be a stalwart supporter of the Center, evident in his service on the Board of Trustees, the Executive Committee, and the writing division. As the editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 1969 to 1977, Kunitz gave rise to a new generation of poets, including such well-known poets as Carolyn Forché and Michael Ryan. Kunitz was also a member of the Academy of American Poets and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. He served as the Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress (1974-1976) and, along with Elizabeth Kray, founded Poets House in New York City in 1985. At the age of 95 Kunitz was named U.S. Poet Laureate, a post he served for two years (2000-2001). Internationally Kunitz participated in a number of cultural exchange programs, which included trips to Russia and Poland in 1967, to Senegal and Ghana in 1976, to Russia again in 1979, and to Israel and Egypt in 1980.
Kunitz's other publications include Selected Poems, 1928-1958 (1959), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1959, The Testing-Tree (1971), The Terrible Threshold (1974), The Poems of Stanley Kunitz: 1928-1978 (1979), Next-to-Last Things (1985), and Passing Through (1995), for which he received the 1995 National Book Award, The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000) and The Wild Braid (2005), a book he co-wrote with Genine Lentine. In 1975 Kunitz published a book of prose entitled A Kind of Order, A Kind of Folly . He edited The Poems of John Keats (1964) and The Essential Blake (1987). In addition Kunitz has also been involved in translating poetry into English. He collaborated with Max Hayward on Poems of Akhamatova (1973) and, with others, translated Andrei Voznesenskii's Story under Full Sail (1974). In 1978 he edited and co-translated the Ukrainian poet Ivan Drach's Orchard Lamps .
In addition to the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Kunitz won other prestigious awards, which include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1945-1946), National Institute of Arts and Letters Award (1959), Academy of American Poets fellowship (1968), National Endowment for the Arts senior fellowship (1984), Bollingen Prize in Poetry, Yale University Library (1987), and the National Medal of Arts (1993).
Equally lauded for his talents as a gardener, Kunitz's Provincetown, MA home featured a sprawling, multi-tiered garden that he had coaxed from sand. His final book, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (2005), co-written with Genine Lentine, reveals the interconnectedness of his writing and gardening habits. A few months shy of his 101th birthday, Stanley Kunitz died at his home in New York City.
The Stanley Kunitz Papers contain wide-ranging materials accumulated by the poet over his lifetime. The collection includes various manuscripts and galley proofs of books, poems, fiction, nonfiction, translations (books and individual poems), and college writings by Kunitz. In addition, it includes a considerable amount of correspondence, which constitutes the bulk of the collection, exchanged between Kunitz and members of his family, friends, fellow literati, publishers, editors, literary journals, and institutions. Some of the major literary figures represented in the correspondence are Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Davison, Louise Glück, Denise Levertov, Robert (Cal) Lowell, Marianne Moore, Theodore Roethke, Michael Ryan, Anne Sexton, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Richard Wilbur. There is also a good deal of correspondence with such institutions and corporations as the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Columbia University, and the Atlantic Monthly Press.
The collection also contains papers (correspondence, documents, and printed materials) from the H. W. Wilson Company, where Kunitz worked as an editor (1928-1943), the U. S. Army (1943-1945), the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts (1968-1997), and the Library of Congress, where Kunitz served as the Poetry Consultant (1974-1976) and later as U.S. Poet Laureate (2000-2001). Also found in the collection are some papers of others, including a poem entitled "The Gettysburg Address" by Robert Lowell, multiple manuscripts of Louise Glück, and the book manuscripts that Kunitz chose while editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
Also included in the Papers are teaching materials, ephemera from readings, travel files, documents, calendars, memorabilia, photographs, annotated books, audiocassettes, and printed material. Most notable among these materials are the photographs of Kunitz, Elise Asher, and their friends. [Note that the Leonard Milberg Collection of American Poetry in the Rare Books Division holds printed books and materials by Kunitz.]
Organized into the following series:
In some cases, there are a number of additional sub-series within a sub-series; see the Series Description for details.
Princeton University purchased the papers from Stanley Kunitz in 1998. The papers came directly from his home in New York City. In 2003, the University received a small gift of Kunitz correspondence and materials from Roger Skillings. Also in 2003, the University purchased additional materials directly from Mr. Kunitz.
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This collection was processed by Heather A. Shannon and Jennifer Maloney in 1999 , 2003 , and 2004 . Additional materials to the collection were processed by Jill Baron in 2012 with the assistance of Lauren Hoffman '15. Finding aid written by Heather A. Shannon and Jennifer Maloney in 1999 , 2003 , and 2004 . Finding aid written and revised by Jill Baron in 2012 .
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Organization
- Academy of American Poets.
- American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- American academy of arts and letters
- Atlantic monthly press
- Yale university press
- United States. Army
- United States. International Communication Agency
- Library of Congress. Poetry Office
- H.W. Wilson Company.
- Harvard university
- 92nd Street Y (New York, N.Y.). Unterberg Poetry Center
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
- Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
Subject
- American literature -- 20th century
- American poetry -- 20th century
- Authors and publishers -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century
- Authors and publishers -- United States -- 20th century
- Authors, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Diplomatic and consular services, American -- 20th century
- Editors -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Editors -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Fathers and daughters -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Husband and wife -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Mothers and sons -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- National Medal of Arts
- New York school of art
- Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Painters -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Pencil drawings, American -- 20th century
- Poetry -- Study and teaching -- United States -- 20th century
- Poetry -- Translating -- 20th century
- Poetry consultants -- United States -- 20th century
- Poets laureate -- United States -- 20th century
- Poets, African -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Poets, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Poets, American -- Political activity -- 20th century
- Poets, American -- Travels -- 20th century
- Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Poets, Ukrainian -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Political letter-writing -- United States -- 20th century
- Presidents -- United States -- 20th century -- Photographs
- Publishers and publishing -- New York (State) -- New York -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Publishers and publishing -- United States -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Pulitzer prizes
- Russian poetry -- 20th century -- Translations into English
- Small presses -- United States -- 20th century
- Women novelists, American -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Women poets, American -- 20th century
Occupation
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2012
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Collection Inventory
The first series consists of autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, photocopies, and galley proofs of Kunitz's literary notebooks, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, translations, and college writings.
This series is arranged into seven subseries: Literary Notebooks, Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations, and College Writings.
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Any notebook with a date on its cover is arranged in chronological order and is located at the beginning of this series. Notebooks without dates but with other identifying information on the cover (such as a title of a work in progress or a place name) follow the dated notebooks and are arranged in alphabetical order. There are two (2) notebooks that appear at the end of this series that do not have any information on the covers; they are at the end of the series and are labeled "Undated."
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Consists of the poetry of Stanley Kunitz, including books of collected poems, individual poems, and broadsides and lithographs.
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This section includes typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies and photocopies of manuscripts, and galley proofs for Kunitz's books of poetry. These are arranged by publication date and include Intellectual Things , (1930) Selected Poems, 1928-1958 (1959), The Testing-Tree (1971), The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978 (1979), Next-to-Last Things (1985), The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems (1983), and Passing Through (1995).
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Consists of autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies of individual poems by Kunitz. The section is arranged alphabetically by poem title. Early or unpublished poems are filed at the end of the section.
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This section contains broadsides of "The Game" and "Robin Redbreast" and lithographs of "River Road." Also found here is the original layout (photograph) for a broadside or lithograph of "The Crystal Cage."
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Consists of drafts of Kunitz's unpublished novel Hartrex as well as short stories
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This section consists of typewritten manuscripts and carbon copies of early and revised drafts of Kunitz's unpublished novel Hartrex . Also here are comments on chapter one of this novel by an unknown critic.
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Includes typewritten manuscripts of unpublished short stories and "fiction fragments" by Kunitz.
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Consists of nonfiction works, including books, essays, interviews, introductions, speeches, and miscellaneous writings.
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This section contains autograph and typewritten manuscripts, galley proofs, carbon copies, and photocopies pertaining to various books either written or edited by Kunitz. These books include The Essential Blake (1987), A Kind of Order, A Kind of Folly (1975), for which there are extensive amounts of material, and Robert Lowell: Poet of the Terribilità (1974). This section is arranged in alphabetical order by title.
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Contains autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, photocopies, and-in some cases-proofs of various essays and reviews written by Kunitz. This section is ordered alphabetically by essay or review title. Miscellaneous and unidentified materials are filed at the end.
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Contains autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies of interviews given by and of Kunitz. All interviews given by Kunitz (of other literary figures) are arranged alphabetically by the title of the interview and are located in front of all interviews of Kunitz by others. Interviews of Kunitz are also in alphabetical order, but all interviews sponsored by organizations (that is, where the organization was given as the interviewer, such as the Mark Rothko Oral History Project) come before interviews given by individuals (for example, Richard Kostelanez).
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This section consists of autograph and typewritten manuscripts, galley proofs, carbon copies, and photocopies of introductions that Kunitz wrote for books by other poets. The bulk of this section includes some of Kunitz's introductions for the books of those chosen by him (as winners) while he was the editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. These are arranged alphabetically by the poet's last name.
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This section contains autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, photocopies, and printed material of speeches written by Kunitz. This section is arranged in alphabetical order by the title of the speech, with one exception. There are materials related to a speech given by Kunitz at the University of Washington, but the title of the this speech is unknown. In this case, the speech is filed under "University of Washington." The speech "Order-Disorder" was found in a large envelope, labeled as such, which contained an extensive amount of manuscripts and printed material; all of this material was kept together, as the printed material is presumed to have been used in writing the speech. There is also a miscellaneous folder in this section that contains materials that appear to be notes for speeches and other public-speaking events.
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Includes autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies and includes such things as autobiographical blurbs, notes on Allen Tate, resumes, notes in Kunitz's hand (and in Elise Asher's hand), and "Seedcorn and Windfall." The section is arranged alphabetically by function: for example, "Autobiographical Blurbs," "Notes," "Resumes," etc.
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This section contains autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies and includes miscellaneous material, some writings on Giorgio Cavallon, and a piece entitled "A Spark of Light."
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Consists of translations for Anna Akhmatova, Ivan Drach, and Andrei Voznesenskii.
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Includes typewritten manuscripts, setting copies, galley proofs, page proofs, carbon copies, and photocopies of Poems of Akhmatova (1973), translated by Kunitz (with Max Hayward). The section is arranged by draft version, which means that it begins with the typewritten manuscripts and ends with the page proofs of this book.
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This section consists of typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, photocopies, and printed material related to Kunitz's translations of Anna Akhmatova's poems. The section is arranged alphabetically by poem title. A few folders follow the poems that contain miscellaneous and other related printed materials.
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Consists of autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, photocopies, and galley proofs of Ivan Drach's Orchard Lamps (1978), edited and co-translated by Kunitz.
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Contains typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies of Drach's poems as translated by Kunitz and others. The section is arranged in alphabetical order by poem title.
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This secton includes carbon copies and photocopies of the manuscripts for Voznesenskii's Story under Full Sail , 1974, translated by Kunitz.
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This section consists of autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies of Kunitz's translations of Voznesenskii's poems. The section is arranged alphabetically according to poem title.
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Contains autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies of various translations by Kunitz. The section is arranged in alphabetical order by poet name and includes the poets Bella Akhmadulina, Osip Mandelstam, Östen Sjöstrand, Aba Stolzenberg, and Giuseppe Ungaretti.
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This sub-series contains autograph and typewritten manuscripts of Kunitz's college writings. In some cases, professor evaluations appear on the manuscripts.
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This section covers a formidable range of dates (1924-1997) and correspondents; it is in alphabetical order by correspondent name, with two exceptions: letters pertaining to Kunitz's political activism (against the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War), which Kunitz originally filed and remain under "Activism" and congratulatory letters he received when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which are filed under "Pulitzer Prize: Letters of Congratulations." The correspondents in this series include literary figures, colleges and universities, literary institutions, magazines and literary journals, publishers, foundations, and government agencies. Some of the important literary figures include Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Denise Levertov, Robert (Cal) Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Michael Ryan, Anne Sexton, and Allen Tate. There are letters from the colleges and universities where Kunitz taught, beginning with Bennington College and ending with Columbia University, and where Kunitz was invited to give poetry readings or lectures, such as Sarah Lawrence College and Southern Methodist University. Kunitz's activity within the literary community is also evident, as there is a large amount of correspondence from such institutions as the Academy of American Poets, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the Poetry Center (YMHA), New York City, and the Poets House, to name just a few. Kunitz corresponded with magazines and literary journals like The American Poetry Review, The Dial , the New Yorker, Poetry , and Poetry Northwest . The Atlantic Monthly correspondence is filed under the headings "Atlantic Monthly Press" and "Davison, Peter." The correspondence (all of it) from Peter Davison was filed under his name because he is an important literary figure, not simply Kunitz's editor; however, letters from such figures as Stephen Berg and Marianne Moore, (and there are others) are located in at least two (2) places. That is, letters from Berg can be found under "American Poetry Review" and "Berg, Stephen," and Marianne Moore's letters under "(The) Dial" and "Moore, Marianne." Cases such as these are usually noted on the corresponding folders. There are also letters from Kunitz's various publishers, including Little, Brown (see also "Atlantic Monthly Press"), Martin, Secker and Warburg, and Sheep Meadow Press. There is a fair amount of correspondence from Yale University Press relating to Kunitz's responsibilities as editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. This sub-series also contains correspondence from various foundations, such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (this includes Kunitz's fellowship application materials and letters of recommendation for some of his students) and the New Hope Foundations (see also "Marshall, Lenore G. and James"). Correspondence from government agencies pertain mostly to various cultural exchange programs in which Kunitz participated (for example, see "United States International Communication Agency"). Some other notes of interest include letters from Boni and Liveright, Publishers, whom Kunitz apparently attempted to sway to publish the prison letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a letter from Viking Press rejecting Kunitz's Pulitzer-Prize winning book.
This series is arranged into three subseries: Family Letters, General, Cards and Letters Received during Hospitalization, 1969 and 1971.
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This sub-series is arranged in alphabetical order by correspondent name. Some of the correspondents in this section include Kunitz's current wife, Elise Asher, members of the Asher family, Eleanor Evans (his second wife), his daughter Gretchen, his mother, Mrs. Y. H. Dine, and sisters (there are letters from Kunitz to his mother as well), members of the Dine family, and a (possible) cousin "Ros."
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This section covers a formidable range of dates (1924-1997) and correspondents; it is in alphabetical order by correspondent name, with two exceptions: letters pertaining to Kunitz's political activism (against the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War), which Kunitz originally filed and remain under "Activism" and congratulatory letters he received when he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, which are filed under "Pulitzer Prize: Letters of Congratulations." The correspondents in this series include literary figures, colleges and universities, literary institutions, magazines and literary journals, publishers, foundations, and government agencies. Some of the important literary figures include Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Denise Levertov, Robert (Cal) Lowell, Theodore Roethke, Michael Ryan, Anne Sexton, and Allen Tate. There are letters from the colleges and universities where Kunitz taught, beginning with Bennington College and ending with Columbia University, and where Kunitz was invited to give poetry readings or lectures, such as Sarah Lawrence College and Southern Methodist University. Kunitz's activity within the literary community is also evident, as there is a large amount of correspondence from such institutions as the Academy of American Poets, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the Poetry Center (YMHA), New York City, and the Poets House, to name just a few. Kunitz corresponded with magazines and literary journals like The American Poetry Review, The Dial , the New Yorker, Poetry , and Poetry Northwest . The Atlantic Monthly correspondence is filed under the headings "Atlantic Monthly Press" and "Davison, Peter." The correspondence (all of it) from Peter Davison was filed under his name because he is an important literary figure, not simply Kunitz's editor; however, letters from such figures as Stephen Berg and Marianne Moore, (and there are others) are located in at least two (2) places. That is, letters from Berg can be found under "American Poetry Review" and "Berg, Stephen," and Marianne Moore's letters under "(The) Dial" and "Moore, Marianne." Cases such as these are usually noted on the corresponding folders. There are also letters from Kunitz's various publishers, including Little, Brown (see also "Atlantic Monthly Press"), Martin, Secker and Warburg, and Sheep Meadow Press. There is a fair amount of correspondence from Yale University Press relating to Kunitz's responsibilities as editor of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. This sub-series also contains correspondence from various foundations, such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (this includes Kunitz's fellowship application materials and letters of recommendation for some of his students) and the New Hope Foundations (see also "Marshall, Lenore G. and James"). Correspondence from government agencies pertain mostly to various cultural exchange programs in which Kunitz participated (for example, see "United States International Communication Agency"). Some other notes of interest include letters from Boni and Liveright, Publishers, whom Kunitz apparently attempted to sway to publish the prison letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a letter from Viking Press rejecting Kunitz's Pulitzer-Prize winning book.
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This sub-series contains the cards and letters received by Kunitz during his 1969 and 1971 hospitalizations. Kunitz bundled both years together in one envelope, and so they remain together in this sub-series. The cards and letters were separated by year and then arranged alphabetically; cards and letters without dates are in a folder marked "Undated."
Arranged chronologically.
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This series is arranged in roughly chronological order; for example, Kunitz began working at H. W. Wilson Company before he was drafted into the U. S. Army and became involved with the Fine Arts Work Center long after this. The only exception is sub-series "E. (Miscellaneous)," which is arranged alphabetically by subject.
This series is arranged into five subseries: H.W. Wilson Company, United States Army, Fine Arts Work Center, Library of Congress, and Miscellaneous.
Physical Description9 boxes
Consists mostly of correspondence pertaining to the reference books that Kunitz edited for the H. W. Wilson Company but also contains some other materials related to these same books, which are interfiled with the correspondence. The sub-series ranges in dates from 1927 through 1995, with the bulk of material ranging from 1933 to 1934 and from 1952 to around 1978. For the 1933 Authors Today and Yesterday , Kunitz received a great deal of correspondence directly from the authors who were profiled in the book. These letters are in the 1933 folders and are arranged alphabetically by author name, as opposed to being arranged in chronological order by month and day.
Arranged chronologically.
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The sub-series includes official correspondence, official documents, copies of the company news magazine that Kunitz edited ( The Ten-Minute Break ), a drawing of Kunitz by a fellow enlisted officer, and printed materials that Kunitz accumulated during his service in the Army (1943-1945).
Arranged by genre of material.
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The papers in this sub-series reflect Kunitz's ceaseless contributions to the Center, beginning in 1968 and continuing through 1997. The sub-series includes such material as annual reports, correspondence, memoranda to the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee (Kunitz served on both), copies of property contracts, publicity and promotional materials, and printed materials. With the exception of miscellanea and printed material, which can be found at the end of the sub-series, the sub-series is arranged alphabetically by subject: for example, "Correspondence" follows "Annual Reports."
Arranged alphabetically by genre of material.
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This sub-series consists of the papers that Kunitz collected while he was the Poetry Consultant for the Library of Congress (1974-1976); however, there are some printed material that pre- and post-date his tenure as Consultant. With the exception of miscellanea and printed material, the papers are arranged alphabetically by subect: for example, "Conference, October 1975" follows "Annual Reports." All the correspondence for the Library of Congress can be found in Series II, Sub-Series B under "Library of Congress."
Arranged alphabetically by genre of material.
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The sub-series is arranged alphabetically by subject and consists of papers that Kunitz accrued from a variety of enterprises. There are materials from conferences sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and the American Enterprise Institute; from poetry festivals at Southern Methodist University and the University of Virginia; from a supplement of American Poetry Reveiw edited by Kunitz in 1974, which includes manuscripts of poems by Keith Althaus, Michael Casey, Tess Gallagher, Louise Glück, Daniel Halpern, Robert Hass, Peter Klappert, Gregory Orr, Kathleen Spivack, and David Young; and miscellaneous materials regarding the Yale Series of Younger Poets from 1969-1977. Materials regarding the National Medal of Arts, which Kunitz received in 1993, are also in this sub-series.
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
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Consists of lecture notes and notebooks with records of student progress, etc.
This series is arranged into two subseries: Notebooks, and Miscellaneous.
Physical Description3 boxes
Includes the notebooks in which Kunitz wrote lecture notes or recorded his students' progress. In most cases Kunitz noted the college or university where the notebook was being used, and so the sub-series is arranged alphabetically by institution and, within each institution name, by course title. Notebooks without an institution noted on the cover (or front page) are at the end of the sub-series and labeled "Unidentified."
Arranged alphabetically by institution where notebook was used, then by course title.
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Consists of miscellaneous teaching materials (autograph and typewritten manuscripts, carbon copies, and photocopies), including course prospectuses, syllabi, exams, and photocopies possibly used in seminars. There are also a few class lists, in-class responses by Kunitz's students, and comments on the theses of Columbia University graduate students. When material could be positively indentified as being from a particular institution, it was arranged alphbetically by college or university name. All other materials are labeled "Unidentified" and are at the end of the sub-series.
Arranged alphabetically by institution.
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This series contains the papers that pertain to Kunitz's journeys abroad. The papers have been kept together as Kunitz had them. Each trip in this series was sponsored by a cultural exchange program of some sort. This series is arranged alphabetically according to continent or country name.
This series is arranged into four subseries: Africa, Israel/Egypt, Italy, and Russia.
Physical Description4 boxes
This sub-series consists of the various papers, including documents, and miscellaneous and printed materials, that Kunitz collected from and about his 1976 journey to Africa, where he visited the countries of Senegal and Ghana. In cases where it was possible to make a decisive identification, the materials are filed under the country from which they originated or to which they refer. If it was difficult to make such a judgment or if the material in question referred to both countries, it was placed at the beginning of the sub-series. Materials from Senegal preceed those from Ghana, as this was the order in which Kunitz visited each country. There is a good deal of printed material from Ghana regarding a student demonstration against Kunitz at a poetry reading.
Arranged by genre of material and subject of material.
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Consists of materials, including correspondence, documents, notebooks, photocopies, and miscellaneous and printed materials, that Kunitz accumulated reagarding his trip to Israel and Egypt in 1980. When possible, the material was arranged according to country of origin. Materials regarding Israel were placed before those regarding Egypt, as this was the order in which Kunitz visited each country; material regarding both countries is located at the beginning of the sub-series.
Arranged by genre of material and subject of material.
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Consists of correspondence regarding and printed material from Kunitz's 1977 trip to Italy.
Arranged by genre of material.
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Contains materials pertaining to Kunitz's 1967 and 1979 trips to Russia. Although his visit to Russia in 1967 included a stop in Poland, all of the material in this collection relates to Russia. In addition, the materials of each trip were found in separate envelopes with labels (in Kunitz's hand) indicating the year in which the trip was taken. In regard to the 1967 visit, there is a good deal of correspondence, which is arranged in alphabetical order; however, many of these letters were dated after the trip (up to 1974) but, because they were in the 1967 envelope, were left in this series (as opposed to moving them to Series II, Sub-Series B). This sub-series includes-aside from the correspondence-documents, carbon copies, and miscellaneous and printed material and is arranged by the year in which each trip was taken ( i.e. , all of the material from 1967 precedes that of 1979).
Arranged chronologically and then by genre of material.
Physical Description2 boxes
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This series consists of Kunitz's appointment calendars for the years 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1991. There is also a pocket calendar from 1919.
Arranged chronologically.
Physical Description2 boxes
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This series contains various documents, including loan receipts and a grade report from Harvard University, royalty statements, and various contracts for books, poetry readings, and teaching appointments. If contracts were attached to letters, then both pieces can be located with the general correspondence (Series II, Sub-Series B).
Arranged alphabetically by genre of material.
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This series includes photos belonging to Kunitz and ranges in dates from the 1920s through 1995. The photos are arranged roughly in chronological order, based either on dates or on place names written on the verso of a photo. At the end of the series are the photos that belonged to Kunitz's mother, Mrs. Y. H. Dine.
Arranged chronologically.
Physical Description3 boxes
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This series contains a few pieces of memorabilia, including certificates, drawing of Kunitz, keys, postcards of authors (this includes Kunitz) photographed by Jill Krementz, a Spoken Arts Record, stationery, and some miscellaneous material. This series also includes Sarah Kunitz's (his sister) typing medal.
Arranged alphabetically by genre of material.
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This series includes four (4) books that were annotated (in some cases extensively) by Kunitz. The books are: Collected Poems: 1909-1935 by T. S. Eliot, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins , and Collected Poems by W. B. Yeats.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
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This series consists of three (3) audiocassettes. Two (2) of these cassettes are from the Nina Vance Alley Theatre-one of these contains a dramatic interpretation of Kunitz's Akhmatova translations and the other a song written to James Joyce's "Chamber Music." The third tape is a recording of "Stanley Kunitz and Friends," a 1986 tribute to Kunitz sponsored by the Writer's Voice of the West Side YMCA Arts Center, New York City.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
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This series contains papers of others, such as correspondence and manuscripts, the series is arranged alphabetically by author name. The letters and various other papers of Mrs. Y. H. Dine are filed here, as are letters from Harriet Moore ( Poetry ) to Louis E. Asher, Kunitz's third wife's father. Manuscripts, however, constitute the bulk of this series and represent such figures as Robert (Cal) Lowell, Gerald Stern, Theodore Roethke, and C. K. Williams. In addition to this are some of the manuscripts chosen (as winners) by Kunitz while he edited the Yale Series of Younger Poets. The Younger Poets in this collection include Olga Broumas, Michael Casey, Carolyn Forché, Robert Hass, Peter Klappert, and Michael Ryan.
Arranged alphabetically by author.
Physical Description6 boxes
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This series contains three (3) sub-series: A. Writings by SK, B. Works about SK, and C. Other. Each of these sub-series contains clipping that are arranged by date and are in archival boxes. In addition, each sub-series also contains boxes (at least one) of magazines and journals that are not arranged in any sort of order.
This series is arranged into three subseries: Works by Stanley Kunitz, Works About Stanley Kunitz, and Other.
Physical Description11 boxes
Consists of clippings and articles by Stanley Kunitz.
Arranged by genre of material.
Physical Description3 boxes
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Consists of clippings and articles about Stanley Kunitz.
Arranged by genre of material.
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Consists of other miscellaneous clippings and articles.
Arranged by genre of material.
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This series is arranged into ten subseries: Writings, Correspondence, Subject Files, Memorabilia, Audiovisual Materials, Artwork, Writings of Others, Printed Material, and Ephemera.
This series consists of additional personal and professional materials received prior to and following Stanley Kunitz's death in 2006. A diverse array of materials, including manuscripts, correspondence with friends, fans, and fellow literati, subject files, photographs, audiovisual materials and artwork, richly portrays Kunitz's illustrious career and the various literary and artistic communities to which he and his wife Elise Asher belonged. Kunitz was active professionally all the way up to his death, a remarkable feat for anyone, much less a centenarian. This addition of materials to his papers best represents the period of 1995-2006, in which he published three books: Passing Through (1995) The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz (2000) and The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden (2005). While most of the materials date from the mid-1990s until 2006, older materials in this series fill gaps in the first acquisition.
Physical Description33.0 linear feet
Materials in this subseries consist of poems and prose written when Kunitz was an undergraduate at Harvard, notes and notebooks, manuscripts of volumes of poetry, prose, and individual poems and essays, and dozens of translations that Kunitz did through the 1960s and 1970s of Russian and Eastern European poets.
Arranged by genre of material.
Physical Description8.0 linear feet
Poems are arranged alphabetically by title. The two prose pieces are filed at the end.
These writings consist of poems and two short prose pieces that Kunitz submitted for assignments at Harvard College. A few may have been written after Kunitz earned his master's degree in 1927, for they bear a New York City address. A fine example of Kunitz's earliest work, most of the items bear the professor's comments, and in many cases, a grade. It appears that for the earlier poems Kunitz signed his poems "Apeneck Sweeney," though later dropped this moniker.
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There are two drafts: one, a poem, the other in prose form. Both include professor's notes.
Physical Description1 folder
Multiple drafts. On one draft the professor's comments read: "very good - in spots. B+."
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Multiple drafts.
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TMS and two AMssS.
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Five pages of handwritten drafts.
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Prose piece.
Physical Description1 folder
Prose piece.
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All items included are autograph notes, with one typewritten draft of an essay on Theodore Roethke. One set of notes, entitled "U of Cal. - Berkeley" is dated 1960 April 6, but all other items are undated. Of note: a handwritten draft called "The Status of the Artist" comments on a topic discussed by "The Club," dating the draft to circa 1960.
Physical Description1 folder
Includes various drafts of poems, reminders, short aphoristic pieces, quotations, copies of poems by others.
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Includes photocopies of poems and autograph notes. Some items have dates (1971, 1979) though most do not, and some items are written in Genine Lentine's hand, dating the material to the 2000s. The original folder containing these items was labeled "SK Writings."
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Computer print-outs of shards of interviews, printed on card stock. Some autograph corrections in Genine Lentine's hand.
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Includes handwritten notes and typewritten drafts of the "Introduction" to The Essential Blake (1987).
Physical Description1 folder
Handwritten draft on Akhmatova, TM on George Novack, page of a TM on the Fine Arts Work Center, miscellaneous notes in Genine Lentine's hand. Most of the materials are undated.
Physical Description1 folder
Printed on card stock and numbered, these notes may pertain to The Wild Braid, written with Genine Lentine, or to speeches. Many are autobiographical. Kunitz annotated and corrected most of the cards.
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Copies of poems by Robert Herrick, Hart Crane, William Blake, among others. Possibly for teaching purposes.
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Artist unknown, but judging by the handwriting of the captions, it is probably Kunitz.
Physical Description1 folder
Sketch of cat in black marker by Elise Asher. Corresponding note provides title, date, and location, "the Cape."
Physical Description1 folder
Journal contains entries about travels in Italy, quotations of authors, ruminations.
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Contains notes, drafts, clippings. Represents Kunitz's wide ranging curiosity, with entries on Ocmulgee, John Keats, monarch butterflies, exploding stars, coastal plants. Drafts of poems, including an AM of "The Lincoln Relics," and preparatory notes for poems, such as an entry on "The Wellfleet Whale" dated 1968 October 12.
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One notebook is entitled "Children in Bk" and the other untitled.
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Two notebooks, each one bearing AMssS of the poems.
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Cloth-bound book given to Kunitz, inscribed by colleagues and friends at the Library of Congress. Dedication page reads "for Stanley, a bit of the Library to carry with you. With thanks from Alan Fern."
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List of paintings with dimensions and prices, recipes for cream of sorrel soup.
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Filed in two sections: a "Quick Reference" file, followed by a general A-Z category.
A jewel among the collection, this box contains hundreds of index cards that Kunitz kept, a veritable card catalog of quotations, speeches he made, and notes and writings on poets, artists, and various subjects. Filed alphabetically, the index cards cover a wide range of subject areas. Although Kunitz was a seasoned biographer, having written reference manuals for the H.W. Wilson Company, the cards are not biographical or subject studies. The catalog is rather a mnemonic device for recalling key aspects of literary and artistic works and subjects. For instance, the card for "Carroll, Lewis" bears a short excerpt from Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno . The entry for "metaphor" spans three index cards, written on both sides, containing quotations from Robert Frost, Aristotle, William Blake, Cecil Day Lewis. The cards are handwritten and typewritten, and many include clippings. While some have dates, the majority are undated.
Physical Description1 box
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These files include materials related to various published books of poetry, including notes, drafts of manuscripts, galley proofs, and correspondence with editors and publishers. While the majority of materials pertain to Kunitz's later works, such as Passing Through (1995), The Collected Poems (2000), and The Wild Braid (2005), there are materials from earlier books as well. The files are arranged by book, and then chronologically by publication date.
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Galley proofs.
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Carbon copy and photocopied pages of manuscript with autograph notes.
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2 TMssS, two photocopies of TMS with autograph edits, copy of Norton press release with autograph edits.
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Photocopies of TMss and computer print-outs with autograph notes.
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Includes correspondence and photocopy of questionnaire from publisher, W.W. Norton & Company.
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Bound copy of photocopied poems and materials for Passing Through . Some autograph edits.
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TMss, photocopies, and publisher's edition. Some autograph notes.
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Photocopies with autograph edits and galley proofs of the first section of The Collected Poems.
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Photocopy of galley proofs with edits.
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Photocopy of galley proofs with edits.
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Photocopy of galley proofs with edits.
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Photocopy of galley proofs with edits.
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Photocopy of galley proofs with edits.
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Photocopy of galley proofs with edits.
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Includes correspondence.
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Includes photographic slide of painting by Elise Asher, "The Rapture and the Dread," a TLS from Carol Houck Smith, Kunitz's editor at Norton, and a photocopy of a ALS from Kunitz to Smith.
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Co-written with literary assistant, Genine Lentine. Photographs by Marnie Crawford Samuelson.
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Computer print-out. Pages 1-53, with edits.
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Pages 54-128A.
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Computer print-out, bound copy.
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Copy of the origianl manuscripts, with note that reads "single spaced ms copy for reference only."
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Computer print-out with some photos.
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With color photo contact sheets.
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With editor's edits and notes.
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Autograph edits by multiple people, including Genine Lentine and Kunitz's editor at W.W. Norton & Company, Carol Houck Smith. Also includes correspondence (email) from Smith to a colleague at Norton.
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Contains editor's remarks.
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13 digital photographs printed on card stock and contact sheets with notes.
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34 glossy prints with edits in crayon.
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Note in Genine Lentine's hand reads: "This was made for Stanley to read from for a videotape."
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Includes outline of project, postcard, and book jacket.
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Contents list for an unpublished collection of poetry, "Selected Poems 1928-1990."
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The photocopy of "The Long Boat" is inscribed to Jeanne Bultman: "For Jeanne, in memory of Fritz - July 24, 1985 Provincetown."
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Although seemingly unpublished as "Three Epigrams", the last stanza constitutes the entire poem of "Again! Again!" published in The Testing Tree (1971).
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Multiple drafts and reworkings in Kunitz's handwriting of this, one of Kunitz's best known poems.
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The file contains only part three of the longer poem.
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File contains first four parts of the five-part poem.
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2 copies of "The Artist" printed on fine paper; a signed copy of "Robin Redbreast" on fine paper; 3 autograph copies of "The Game," all signed.
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Poems excluded from a collection. Labeled "discards" by Kunitz.
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Produced for The Folger Shakespeare Library 1986-1987 Evening Poetry Series.
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Published by Princeton University. Graphic design by M. Bruce, typography by K. Kolodziaj.
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Includes drafts of essays in various forms: as photocopies, TMss, and carbon copies of TMss. Some materials are dated and many have autograph edits.
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Edited by Kunitz's friend and colleague Stanley Moss.
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Bears Kunitz's autograph edits.
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Includes related correspondence from Harriott. Interview is heavily edited by Kunitz.
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Includes correspondence from Stanley Moss and multiple revisions, with Kunitz's autograph edits.
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Kunitz and David Ignatow edited this volume of Shapiro's poetry, though it was published the year after Ignatow's death. The files include drafts of the foreword, substantial correspondence,
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A hefty file of Kunitz's TM and AM drafts of the foreword to the volume.
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Draft of manuscript, excluding the Kunitz/Ignatow foreword.
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These files consist of drafts of speeches (TMss, AMss, computer print-outs) that Kunitz delivered. Most include a date and a location, though the date corresponds to when the speech was given, not (necessarily) when it was written.
Arranged alphabetically by title. When a title is not clear, the items are arranged alphabetically by the subject or subject's last name.
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Draft is a computer printout, produced circa 1991, with Kunitz's autograph edits.
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On receiving the Fine Arts Work Center Medal for Distinguished Service in the Art, New York.
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Includes multiple drafts, notes, and correspondence from the Poetry Society of America regarding the transcript of the speech.
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File includes multiple drafts of Kunitz's eulogy, a clipping of Kray's obituary, a program of the memorial service heavily annotated by Kunitz, and a long note to Kunitz from Vladimir Ussachevsky, Kray's husband, regarding the order of the service.
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Includes correspondence from Avis Berman [1994 October 10].
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Includes multiple drafts, notes, correspondence from Alice Quinn [2001 December 11] and Eve Grubin [2001 October 26], and a program from the event.
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Attached note reads: "Based on impromptu remarks at the opening session of the Third Annual New York/New Jersey Poetry Teachers Conference."
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Includes correspondence.
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Includes correspondence.
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Note at top of first page reads: "Eve of World War II address to librarians at NYPL (I think)" and the note is dated 1974 June. 14 pages, TMS.
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Arranged alphabetically by title or subject.
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A note in pencil in Kunitz's hand reads "Yale Series Oct '75."
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Filed alphabetically by title, or in some cases by subject.
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Includes remarks on the appointment of Creeley as state poet of New York.
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For a brochure. Includes notes written in Genine Lentine's hand.
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Boston Globe article on Ruth Lilly's bequest to Poetry magazine.
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Blurb written for Wesleyan Press.
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Two versions of the same essay.
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Autograph notes and drafts of a piece whose first line begins "one of my mother's gifts to me [...]" File includes draft of essay entitled "To the Golden Land" and an offprint of "My Mother's Story." Also present is a fragment of letter to David Remnick, undated. All of the materials were kept together by Kunitz.
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Fragment of printed essay with autograph notes.
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Includes multiple drafts and correspondence.
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Published in The New York Times Book Review as "The Poet's Quest for the Father."
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Short blurb.
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File includes ephemera from the Walt Whitman Association and the National Park Service.
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Photocopies.
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File so named by Kunitz.
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This section of materials consists of interviews that Kunitz conducted and interviews conducted by others of Kunitz. The large majority, however, fall in the latter category, and the drafts of these interviews demonstrate that Kunitz wielded great editorial control over the content.
Interviews by Kunitz are arrangeed alphabetically by subject. Interviews of Kunitz are arranged alphabetically by interviewer. For this reason, titles of interviews will not appear in alphabetical order.
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This file includes a photocopy of the interview published in the Atlantic Monthly (1966), and a transcript of the interview with correspondence from Jacek Niecko (1998).
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A photocopy of the published article with autograph notes.
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Includes correspondence from the Academy of American Poets [Henri Cole] regarding the re-publication of the interview.
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Includes correspondence. Copy was printed from the Internet, with Kunitz's annotations.
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Includes correspondence and multiple annotated drafts. Interview published in Tin House 7.
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Photocopy of TM. Note reads "interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's 'Mark Rothko and His Times' oral history project."
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Includes correspondence from Davison [1991 May 22].
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Includes multiple drafts and correspondence.
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See also Subseries 14C, folder x, "Power of the Word," Moyers' PBS program, for more materials related to this interview.
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Includes correspondence.
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Written as an article rather than as an interview, the manuscript nevertheless bears Kunitz's autograph edits and notes.
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Manuscript bears a note from Shinder to Kunitz, and the text is annotated by Kunitz. It also contains an unsent postcard addressed to Mark Rudman. Besides the address, the postcard has no text.
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A two-page fragment of an interview. In it Kunitz discusses Franz Kline and Charles Olson.
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Interviewers include: Marsha Pomerantz, Associated Press, Wynn Yarbrough, Maerwydd McFarland, Yale Literary Magazine.
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Photocopy of an AM compiled by Kunitz. Undated, but presumably from the late 1980s.
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Includes Kunitz's translations of various authors, many from Russian. These materials are primarily TMss with AMss. This latter part of this section also includes translations of Kunitz's work, into French, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, Italian.
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Includes Daniel Halpern's version.
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These files consist of typed manuscripts, or carbon copies of TMss, with annotations in Kunitz's hand. Though the materials are undated, Kunitz first published translations of Akhmatova in 1967, with subsequent editions through 1973.
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This is a photocopy of an English language version of Cardenal's "Lost Cities," translated by Monique and Carlos Altachul. Kunitz annotated the copy with his corrections.
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These files consist of a variety of materials: the original versions in Romanian, "literal versions" provided by Kunitz's co-translator, Kunitz's versions, and also English-language versions translated by Nina Cassian herself.
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Carbon copy of TM, signed by Hofmann and Kunitz. With corrections in Kunitz's hand.
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Includes page of autograph notes on Mandelstam.
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In addition to Kunitz's translations, this group of materials includes translations of Morits by fellow poet and friend, William Jay Smith, with co-translator Vera Dunham.
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In addition to these poems, both translated by Smith and Dunham, the folder contains another of their translations, "Three Lakes" from Aleksandr Tkachenko. Kunitz kept these materials with his own translations of Morits, and so the order has been retained here.
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It is not clear if the date given is the date the poem was written, or when it was translated.
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The dates on these materials range from 1979-1985. Again, it is not clear if these dates correspond to Morits' writing of the poem, or Kunitz's translation.
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Consists of Morits' poems in Russian and biographical materials in English. Also includes a translation of Morits' "Saturday Evening" by Thomas P. Whitney.
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Two carbon copies of TM of same translation, though one is alternately entitled "Meditation on Death." Folder also includes two printed pages of translations by Kunitz of Ungaretti: "Canzone," "End of Summer" and "The Daughters of the Horseleech."
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Includes TMss, galley proofs, and notes related to Yevtushenko's book of poems Stolen Apples .
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Contains poems by various Russian poets, including Joseph Brodsky.
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Folder includes a Polish version of this work and printed material (clippings, and invitation) related to it. The Russian version consists of several poems translated by Liana Alaverdova with correspondence.
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In addition to the manuscript, there is printed material with other poems of Kunitz's translated by Szyper.
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Bulgarian translation of Kunitz's work.
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French translation entitled Le Royaume du Sel. Manuscript (computer print-out) bears Genine Lentine's autograph corrections. Includes correspondence.
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These materials were kept together in a binder labeled "Cross Cultural Communications."
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Sorted into five categories, the correspondence in these files consists mainly of letters from friends and colleagues and fan mail. There is a small amount of correspondence directed specifically toward Elise Asher, and another grouping of letters from neighbors in Provincetown, MA, many of whom did not include surnames in the signature. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically, except for in the case of the fan mail, which is arranged into folders chronologically by year.
Arranged by genre of correspondence.
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Arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
These materials consist of professional and personal correspondence. While the majority of letters date from the mid-1990s until his death in 2006, a significant portion are from earlier periods in Kunitz's life.
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Includes items of both personal and professional import. Get well cards mingle with official memoranda sent to the Chancellors, of which Kunitz was one.
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Letter includes photocopy of TM of Hans Hofmann's "To My Miz," translated by Kunitz. For the signed original, see the corresponding folder in Subseries 14A: Writings: Translations: Hans Hofmann.
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Magnetic tape "half track" entitled "Discussion on Romantic Imagination" removed to Subseries 14F: Audiovisual Materials, Box 185.
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Includes two photographs and photonegatives of Kunitz's mother, Yetta Helen Dine.
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Includes photo.
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More materials from Stanley Barkan are filed under Subseries 14C: Professional Files: Cross-Cultural Communications.
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For more materials from Amy Bartlett see also Subseries 14A: Interviews for the file on Bartlett's interview of Kunitz for "Tin House."
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Includes reply from Kunitz.
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For more materials from Lee Briccetti, see also the correspondence and professional files for Poets House.
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Includes musical score set to "Change." Two CDs were removed to Subseries 14F: Audiovisual Materials, Box 190.
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Includes a small handmade book of poems, "Lumens," signed by Broumas.
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Includes correspondence from Peter McCormick regarding Hugh Bullock's funeral service.
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For more correspondence from Christopher Busa, refer to the correspondence file for Provincetown Arts.
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Includes correspondence from Kunitz.
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Includes a reply from Kunitz.
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Primarily correspondence from friends of Lucille Clifton's, sent on her behalf.
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Includes a TM poem by Cole and two photographs.
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Includes photocopy of ALS from Kunitz.
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A collage of sorts, including a photocopy of an ALS from Cummings, her obituary, and a heart-shaped design.
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Includes photocopies of ALS and TLS from Kunitz.
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Includes photograph of Kunitz and "Jerry" and a portrait of Kunitz. The latter item has been removed to Subseries 14E: Photographs: Kunitz Portraits.
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Includes a photocopy of a TLS from Kunitz.
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Dine sent this batch of seven letters, photocopies of both ALssS and TLssS, to Kunitz, along with her circa 2000 manuscript "Places in the Bone: A Memoir." In this collection the letters and the manuscript have been separated. For the manuscript, see Subseries 14H: Writings of Others: Dine, Carol.
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Includes a photocopy of a ANS from Kunitz, and an AM of a blurb in Genine Lentine's hand.
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Includes postcard with image of Taras Shevcheko.
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Includes carbon copy of TL from Kunitz.
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Includes greeting cards and notes from interns and students.
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For full expression of materials related to the Fine Arts Work Center, see also Subseries 14C for the professional file.
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Includes TLS from Kunitz.
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One of Kunitz's most devoted correspondents, the file includes photos of Kunitz and of Gallagher, a broadside, and manuscripts of Gallagher's work.
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More Glück correspondence is located in the Glück file of Subseries 14H: Writings of Others.
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Includes correspondence from Kunitz regarding the Fine Arts Work Center.
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Includes photocopies of an ALS and a TLS from Kunitz.
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Includes a photocopy of a TLS from Kunitz, and also several autograph drafts of the same letter Kunitz sent to Grubin.
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File includes photos.
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Includes first receipt of fellowship stipend and certificate of appointment, and related correspondence (1945-1946).
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Include carbon copy of TL from Kunitz.
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Includes wood-cut prints of Erica Haba's work.
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File includes photos.
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Postcard, signed "Elizabeth L." for Lowell.
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Letter is addressed to Virginia Dajani, but ended up in Kunitz's files.
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Signed broadside.
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Includes drawing of Kunitz, signed and dated by Ignatow.
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Photocopy of an ALS from Kunitz recommending Louise Glück's poetry collection to Jones.
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Includes photocopy of Kunitz's ALS response.
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Includes Kunitz's TLS response.
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File includes photos, correspondence from Kunitz, and correspondence to Genine Lentine.
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Letter regarding May Swenson's posthumous collection.
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Christmas card.
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Includes photos.
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Includes photocopy of ALS from Kunitz.
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1 TLS.
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Poem enclosed.
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Autograph postcard.
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1 ALS.
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Includes copy of two TLsS sent by Kunitz.
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Invitation for Gerald Stern's birthday party.
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2 TLsS and one photograph, which depicts Mr. MacShane in front of a painted portrait of Kunitz at the Worcester Art Museum.
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Includes an inscribed copy of pamphlet, "Spiritual Linkage with Russians."
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A faithful correspondent, Masters' files comprise over two decades of letters to Kunitz. The majority of letters here begin in 1994.
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Includes a photocopy of an ALS from Kunitz.
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Telephone message left for Kunitz at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Includes photos.
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Several ALsS and TLsS, including a card from Paula Merwin.
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Includes TLS from Kunitz.
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Correspondence, including a TLS from David Remnick, program materials, and the event badge.
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Invitations, personal letters, and drafts of poems, this ranks among the most spirited files of Kunitz's correspondence.
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Includes photocopy of ANS from Kunitz.
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Includes correspondence from Karl Kirchwey.
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Includes correspondence from Elise Paschen, Alice Quinn and William Louis-Dreyfus.
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Includes correspondence from Lee Briccetti and Myra Shapiro.
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Includes a photocopy of a TLS from Kunitz.
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Correspondence from 1973 consists of photocopies of letters to and from Norman Mailer. The bulk of the file dates from 2000, with a TLS from Kunitz.
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Includes broadside of poem.
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A TL from Kunitz to Remnick.
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Includes chapbook of poetry.
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A classmate from Harvard, much of the correspondence regards alumni matters.
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Includes preliminary bibliography of Kunitz's work.
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Correspondence regarding appearance on Charlie Rose program.
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Includes photo of sculpture of Kunitz, executed by Schneider.
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Includes a photocopy of a TLS from Kunitz.
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This folder comprises correspondence from Elise Asher that Roger Skillings donated to Princeton University Library.
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This folder comprises original correspondence from Stanley Kunitz that Roger Skillings donated to Princeton University Library.
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Includes a TLS from Kunitz.
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Includes carbon copy of TL from Kunitz.
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1 postcard, signed.
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Includes material on Rita Dove.
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Includes program, featuring one of Vonnegut's silkscreen prints, from his 75th birthday party.
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File includes multiple copies of letters from Kunitz to Wertam.
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Invitation to Clinton inauguration and other events and multiple holiday cards.
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Includes correspondence from Jonathan Blunk.
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Includes correspondence from Michael True.
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6 letters, all addressed specifically to Elise Asher. Correspondents include Riccardi Pasquale and Gary Pacernick, among others.
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Comprises correspondence and messages related to Kunitz's Provincetown house and neighborhood. Often the correspondents do not provide a surname (or a date).
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Folders of fan mail are arranged chronologically by year, pursuant to how Kunitz organized these materials.
A much beloved poet, nationally and internationally, Stanley Kunitz received his fair share of mail from readers and fans. The fan mail is notable for many reasons. The letters chart the career and widespread impact of the poet, valuable materials for fleshing out a bibliography of works or list of accolades. Many of the correspondents enclosed poems with their letters, and "fans" in this category range from complete strangers to fellow literati.
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Correspondents include Witter Bynner and John Jamieson (of H.W. Wilson Company).
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Response to Kunitz's appearance on the Bill Moyers' program "Power of the Word." Correspondents include: Michael Ryan, Varujan Boghosian, Carol Dine, Mary Oliver, Karl Shapiro.
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Correspondents include Lucie Brock Broido and Naomi Shihab Nye.
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This file consists of photocopies of Kunitz's responses to the mail from this period. Also included is the press release of the program and other printed material.
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This file contains photocopies of TLssS from Kunitz written in response to fan letters. Most of the letters bear the Library of Congress letterhead, and many are filed with the original fan letter.
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Poems written for or about Stanley Kunitz by fans.
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The materials in these files represent the scope of Kunitz's career as a professional poet, at least in the years predominant to Series 14 (1990-2005). They include files on subjects, readings, prizes, and unlike material in other subseries, such as "Writings" or "Correspondence," these files contain a wide range of materials reflecting the totality of work performed. Therefore among the files on Paul Celan, one will find drafts of speeches and poems that Kunitz wrote, alongside ephemera from venues where Kunitz performed. The subject files mirror as closely as possible Kunitz's approach to organizing his materials.
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File consists of AAP newsletters, invitations, and two posters.
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Files consist of notes, bibliographies, praise of others ("blurbs"), paperwork from Who's Who in the World , and an autobiographical essay about marrying Elise Asher.
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Includes correspondence from Kunitz to John Cremona.
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Includes notes, program, and correspondence from Nancy Willard, Galway Kinnell and Elizabeth Barker.
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Prize letter, clippings, and other correspondence.
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Includes drafts of speech, correspondence, and program materials.
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Includes 2 autograph postcards from Cavallon and 1 ANS from Ellen Russotto.
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Includes photocopied posters from exhibitions.
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Includes notes, drafts, and other writings on Celan.
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Includes drafts of talk, notes, other writings on Celan, event posters and flyers.
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Includes AMss and TMss of the following poems: "Orpheus Solo"; "In the Dark House"; "Orpheus Agonistes"; "Orpheus Alone (in memory of Primo Levi)";
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Lists of friends and colleagues, these materials give a view into Kunitz's artistic and social milieux during three decades.
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Includes correspondence from Peter Davison, publishing agreement, and royalty statements.
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Includes photocopies of 3 TLssS from Kunitz to Peter Davison, and a TLS from Davison to Kunitz.
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Of note: 1 TLS from Halsey William (H.W.) Wilson, dated 1939 January 26, and a certificate of common stock, made out to Stanley J. Kunitz, on 1942 December 31.
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Includes photocopies of TLssS from Kunitz.
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Includes book of poems in Bengali and copy of Przechodzenie Prez (Passing Through in Polish).
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Includes correspondence from Brighde Mullins and a broadside of "Touch Me."
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Includes drafts and correspondence from James Haba.
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Includes multiple TLsS and ALsS from Bill Moyers. Also present is a draft of the interview with Kunitz's corrections.
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Materials are both business-related and of a more personal nature; correspondents include Hunter O'Hanian, Roger Skillings, Michael and Gail Mazur, and Regan Good.
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Includes Board of Trustees materials, meeting minutes.
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Includes TM with autograph corrections of essay entitled "FAWC Crisis for Provincetown Advocate" and a photocopy of a TM with annotations of "The Fellowship of the Arts: Remarks by Stanley Kunitz on receiving the Fine Arts Work Center Medal for Distinguished Service in the Arts".
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Includes correspondence, drafts of press release, photographs (including two black and white snapshots of Stanley Kunitz and Robert Motherwell), clippings, and program materials.
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Includes draft of essay by Jhumpa Lahiri, clippings, printed material.
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Includes correspondence.
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Includes photographs, correspondence from Molly Peacock and a photocopy of a TLS from Kunitz
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Invitations that were filed by Kunitz with their corresponding host (person or organization) are located in the corresponding subject or correspondence file. Otherwise, loose invitations have been collated here.
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LOC files are arranged in chronological order, beginning with materials from Kunitz's consultancy in poetry, through his post as Poet Laureate.
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File includes edition of A Keepsake Anthology of the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the Consultantship in Poetry.
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Includes multiple drafts and correspondence.
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Includes correspondence from Nick Flynn.
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Includes correspondence from Eve Grubin.
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Includes programs for Lionel Trilling, Marie Bullock, Elizabeth Kray and a schedule for the service of Muriel Rukeyser.
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Consists of author lists, correspondence, Kunitz's notes, and other printed material.
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Includes master list, clippings, and a copy of the "Wilson Library Bulletin" from 1965 May.
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Includes ALS from Morley to Kunitz.
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Three copies of "Early Georgia" (1950 Summer, 1954 Fall, 1955 Summer) and annotated copies of booklets on the Ocmulgee.
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Includes copies of a communication describing Kunitz's travels to Egypt and Israel.
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Correspondents include: William Kennedy, Martha Friedberg, Hugh Bullock, Nina Schneider.
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Folders arranged chronologically.
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Includes invitation from The White House (Laura Bush) to "Poetry and the American Voice"; correspondence (emails).
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Event programs, photographs.
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Consists of writings of the festival poets, e.g. John Ashbery, Bogumil Gjuzel.
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E.g. Clarence Major, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Tanikawa Shutaro.
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Includes tourist map of Rotterdam, train tickets, flyers.
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Includes carbon copy of TM, notes and clippings.
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Conference at the Cooper Union. Includes correspondence from Dore Ashton.
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Includes ephemeral items related to television series.
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Includes correspondence from Carol Houck Smith, Gail Mazur, Bobbie Bristol.
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Includes a photocopy of a TLS from Kunitz to Carle Johnson.
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Includes an AMS of speech.
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Includes a TLS from I.M. Pei and multiple letters from Pat de Groot.
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Further materials on Paul Celan.
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Includes correspondence from Annie Wright and Jonathan Blunk. CD of James Wright reading at Harvard University (1979) removed from this folder and filed with multimedia (Subseries 14G).
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Includes correspondence from Carol Houck Smith.
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Consists primarily of ephemera related to readings given by Kunitz: cards, flyers, programs, schedules.
The materials are organized alphabetically by location of the event, e.g. a flyer for a reading at George Mason University will be filed under 'G'. In some cases, when the title of the reading or conference is more prominent than the location, the item will be filed alphabetically by the first letter of the title phrase.
Venues that are represented by two or more items are filed in a separate folder.
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Includes correspondence from Karl Kirchwey.
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The "set lists" are lists of poems that Kunitz kept in preparation for a reading. Venues include colleges and universities, the Library of Congress, Worcester, MA, Provincetown, MA, and poetry centers throughout the United States.
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Includes notes, outlines, subject entries, student work, and printed materials related to Kunitz's long career as a teacher of poetry at various colleges and universities in the United States.
Materials are arranged by college or university, and the folders are ordered chronologically.
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Includes autograph and typewritten notes on W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, "Vegetation Myths," "Sophoclean Tragedy."
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Materials were kept together with those of the previous folder, but these are from a much later date.
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Bound TM of poems and prose for teaching.
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Consists of copies of poems.
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This subseries consists of documents, degrees, awards, and other items of particular significance to Kunitz.
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Oversize item.
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Includes autograph and photocopy of death certificate.
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Includes honorable discharge papers and army qualification record.
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A bill of phony money that Kunitz affixed to a board and kept with his other documents. It bears the face of Henry David Thoreau and reads "Why Pray for Peace and Pay for War?" and "This money is as phony as the 'security' the U.S. 'defense' dollar buys."
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Certificate, signed by Cyril Clemens.
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Includes correspondence from Peter Davison.
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Includes degree mounted on wood and laminated, located behind the folder corresponding to Worcester State College but in the same box (182).
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A mix of candid shots and posed portraits, the photographs in this collection do more than document Kunitz's life; they allow the observer inside some of the twentieth century's most important artistic circles. Stanley Kunitz and Elise Asher counted Robert Motherwell, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Giorgio Cavallon, Robert Lowell, Galway Kinnell, and Dore Ashton among some of their closest personal friends. The photographs show these figures in both casual encounters and more formal compositions, offering an intimate view into the artistic and literary communities to which Kunitz and Asher belonged.
The photos are encased in Mylar and housed in folders. They have been arranged into loose groupings: portraits of Kunitz, portraits of Kunitz and Asher, group shots, and friends. Within these categories, particularly the last two, the photos are arranged alphabetically by subject.
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2 gelatin silver prints.
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11 prints: 8 black-and-white photographs, 1 color photograph, 2 digital prints.
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6 black-and-white photographs.
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1 loose black-and-white photograph and 2 black-and-white photographs mounted on a board.
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Three black-and-white photographs. The beginning date of 1950 is an estimation. One photo features Asher with William Carlos Williams.
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Includes snapshots of Kunitz and Asher circa 2000-2003, 1 color photograph of the couple posing beside a camel, and three black-and-white photographs.
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Photographs are divided into four categories: group shots, Kunitz with friends, and unidentified photographs.
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3 black-and-white photographs. One is of the Consultants in Poetry at the Library of Congress (1978), another of Kunitz with Russian poets (1989), and the third is undated, but pictures Kunitz, Richard Eberhart, Robert Lowell, Richard Wilbur, William Meredith, Robert Penn Warren, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich and John Berryman.
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Black-and-white photograph, listing of subjects printed on back.
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Two prints. Color photograph of the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets surrounding Marie Bullock, the Academy's founder. Black-and-white photograph, group shot, from the event "A Tribute to Stanley Kunitz." Includes Marie Howe, Gerald Stern, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stanley Kunitz, Mark Doty, Robert Pinsky, Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Lucille Clifton and C.K. Williams.
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Black-and-white photograph of seven men, including Kunitz, Mark Rothko and Elliott Carter.
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1 black-and-white photograph. Pictured are Daniel Halpern, Tess Gallagher, Gregory Orr, Stanley Kunitz, Michael Ryan and Carolyn Forché.
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1 color photograph, inscribed by Rosalynn Carter.
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New York City. Black-and-white photograph by Jill Krementz.
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1 black-and-white print. Taken at Columbia University.
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2 black-and-white photographs, taken at the ceremony for New York State Poet.
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1 color photograph.
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Three black-and-white prints, two of Kunitz and Rothko and one black-and-white snapshot of Rothko and a woman.
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1 black-and-white photograph, taken by Jill Krementz.
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1 black-and-white photograph, taken by Jill Krementz.
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1 black-and-white print, taken by Jill Krementz.
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Back of black-and-white photograph reads (in Kunitz's autograph hand): "Akhmatova in 1932. From Anna Akmatova, Le Poème sans Héros, trad. Jeanne Rude. Paris, Ed. Seghers, 1970.
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Black-and-white print in which Akmadulina poses with two dogs.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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Black-and-white photograph by Renate Ponsold, taken at the National Arts Club at an event in Auden's honor. Auden looks appropriately jovial in the picture.
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Black-and-white print of a portrait of Campbell. Back of print includes note, is dated (24 June 1968) and signed.
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2 black-and-white photographs.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph, taken in Montreal.
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1 black-and-white postcard photograph. Reverse side bears Christmas greetings.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph taken in Warsaw, Poland. Signed and dated on reverse by Frisch.
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1 black-and-white photograph taken in Port Angeles, Washington.
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1 black-and-white photograph taken by Gerard Malanga. Glück inscribed the photo: "To Stanley and Elise, with deepest love & respect, Louise."
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1 8"x10" color photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 color photograph. Pictured with cat.
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3 inkjet prints.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 black-and-white postcard. Reverse reads "Nancy Crampton / Willem de Kooning 1975."
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1 6.5"x9" black-and-white photograph of a younger Lowell.
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1 black-and-white photograph. Inscribed "Our Love - for Elise and for Stanley, Carl and Hilda."
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1 black-and-white portrait of Motherwell taken by Renate Ponsold, and 1 color photograph of Motherwell and Ponsold, taken for Architectural Digest by Peter Vitale.
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1 small black-and-white photograph.
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1 color snapshot.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph, signed and dated by the couple.
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1 black-and-white photograph taken by Jill Krementz. Reverse bears Rich's inscription "For Elise & Stanley, with love - (but it wants cutting down, I think!) Adrienne 5/29/68."
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1 color snapshot.
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1 color snapshot.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph of Stamos posing in front of a painting. Inscribed "For Elise & Stanley Love Stamos."
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1 black-and-white photograph, probably taken in Provincetown, MA.
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1 black-and-white photograph. Inscribed to Elise and Stanley Kunitz, signed and dated.
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1 black-and-white photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph and 6 color snapshots.
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Includes slides, color snapshots of friends, two black-and-white photographs of Kunitz's house, and 3 inkjet prints. Also includes ALS from Nancy Webb accompanying the slides.
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Corlor snapshots from various events.
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Binder of inkjet prints related to a bilingual (English/French) edition of Kunitz's poems.
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3 black-and-white photographs. One is of Kunitz and author Tina Rosenburg.
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Inkjet contact sheets from event honoring Kunitz on his 100th birthday. Includes ALS from photographer Susan May Tell.
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Two exhibit catalogs featuring photographs of Stanley Kunitz.
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Includes dozens of unidentified black-and-white photographs.
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A black-and-white "Del Sarto" portrait by Fabian Bachrach.
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1 color photograph.
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1 black-and-white photograph by Nancy Lee Katz.
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1 color and 1 black-and-white photograph.
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A full-page color portrait of Kunitz from the "Worcester Sunday Telegram."
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Photocopy of black-and-white photograph, circa 1900.
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i black-and-white photograph by Hans Namuth.
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1 black-and-white photograph by Renate Ponsold.
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1 black-and-white photograph by Jill Krementz. Shot at the National Institute of Arts and Letters in New York City.
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1 9"x12" board covered in newsprint collage.
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Along with manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs, the collection boasts a hefty amount of audiovisual materials, such as magnetic tapes, CDs, videotapes, audiocassettes and an LP. For the most part, the recordings feature Kunitz reading or lecturing on poetry, that being his own or that of others (Blake, for example). Several, however, feature musical works that were inspired by Kunitz's poems.
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6 tapes total. One is unused.
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Consists of 2 magnetic tapes (reel-to-reel).
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1 magnetic tape.
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2 tapes, condition is poor.
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3 copies.
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2 audiocassettes, removed from correspondence file for Max Sofsky (S-General).
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Selected and read by Stanley Kunitz.
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2 are labeled "Passing Through" and the other "Poetry Reading with Comments."
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Consists of works of art on paper. Among them are a few portraits of Kunitz and one collage valentine that either he or Elise Asher produced.
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Inscribed to Stanley and Elise.
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Stamped on reverse side 1011 Fratelli Alinari Firenze.
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This subseries is further divided into four categories: writings on Stanley Kunitz, broadsides, a general category that includes manuscripts of poetry and prose and musical scores of friends and students, and materials received by Kunitz from fans during his tenure as Poet Laureate.
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Several of the broadsides included here were presented to Kunitz on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.
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Includes musical and dramatic pieces inspired by Kunitz's work.
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Includes compact disc, which was removed to Subseries 14F (Box 190).
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Includes correspondence and musical score.
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Includes correspondence.
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"Stanley Kunitz at Whitman College" is dated November 1997 and includes correspondence.
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Includes correspondence and musical score.
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Includes correspondence from Peter Davison.
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Includes correspondence.
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Includes correspondence.
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Musical score with correspondence.
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One critical piece and one poem. Includes correspondence.
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With Kunitz's notes and correspondence.
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Includes bound manuscript filed after folder 10.
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Introduction to an exhibit catalog featuring Elise Asher's work.
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There is correspondence from Glück attached to most, if not all of the manuscripts, and many of her manuscripts bear Kunitz's notes and annotations.
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Includes photocopy of ALS from Kunitz.
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Includes copy of ALS Kunitz sent to editor Judith Jones on Glück's behalf.
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Includes correspondence.
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Includes correspondence from Carol Houck Smith.
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Includes correspondence.
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Early draft of the published poem "University Hospital, Boston."
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With Kunitz's annotations.
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Poems bear Kunitz's annotations.
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For the most part, the literary journals and magazines in this subseries contain published writings of Kunitz. The clippings are a different story: while the majority of clippings are about Kunitz, several files pertaining to literature, art, and science reveal Kunitz's engagement in a variety of subjects. His annotations in the margins of many articles signify their importance to his creative and intellectual process.
Arranged alphabetically by genre of material.
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By Ito Iwamiya Kamekura. Accompanying note in Genine Lentine's hand reads "this book was a major influence in Stanley's garden."
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By Michael True.
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Includes correspondence.
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The majority of clippings are of articles about Stanley Kunitz or reviews of his works. Kunitz also saved clippings and often annotated them. These have been divided between two categories: Arts and Literature and Science.
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Consists of business cards, recipes, crossword puzzles, brochures, flyers, and a Pewter Bird Pepper Shaker.
Not arranged according to any arrangement scheme.
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Both puzzles feature clues related to Stanley Kunitz.
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Object.
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Object, somewhat in the style of a French street sign.
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