Passing through the later poems, new and selected Kunitz, Stanley 1905-2006 creator author. text bibliography poetry. Poetry. Poetry. Poésie. nyu 1995 1995 Uncorrected Proof monographic eng print vii, 159 pages ; 22 cm Marking the year of his ninetieth birthday, one of the masters of contemporary poetry presents his ninth collection. Stanley Kunitz, recipient of both the Pulitzer and the Bollingen Prizes, here gathers a rich selection of his work, including new poems that remind us of his prefatory statement: "Art is that chalice into which we pour the wine of transcendence." Nearly all the poems of his later years, beginning with The Testing Tree (1971), are included, and most of the poems in Passing Through are unavailable in any other edition. Journal for My Daughter -- An Old Cracked Tune -- The Portrait -- The Magic Curtain -- After the Last Dynasty -- The Illumination -- Robin Redbreast -- River Road -- Summer Solstice (Mandelstam) -- Tristia (Mandelstam) -- The Mound Builders -- The Customs Collector's Report -- The Gladiators -- The System -- Around Pastor Bonhoeffer -- Bolsheviks (Stolzenberg) -- Three Floors -- The Flight of Apollo -- King of the River -- The Mulch -- Indian Summer at Land's End -- Cleopatra (Akhmatova) -- Dante (Akhmatova) -- Boris Pasternak (Akhmatova) -- The Artist -- The Testing-Tree -- The Game -- The Knot -- What of the Night? -- Quinnapoxet -- Words for the Unknown Makers -- The Catch -- The Crystal Cage -- Signs and Portents -- Firesticks -- The Lincoln Relics -- Meditations on Death (Ungaretti) -- The Quarrel -- The Unquiet Ones -- My Sisters -- Route Six -- The Layers -- The Snakes of September -- The Abduction -- Raccoon Journal -- The Old Darned Man -- The Scene -- The Image-Maker. Stanley Kunitz. The Cushing Library/Basbanes Collection copy is part of the Nicholas A. Basbanes Collection. The Cushing Library/Basbanes copy contains one piece of ephemera. Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-169) and index. Donated by Nicholas A. Basbanes ‡d 20151124. National Book Award Winner, 1995 American poetry 20th century Poésie américaine 20e siècle American poetry 1900 - 1999 fast PAU 150618 20240424145416.5 in00004589334 eng