Volume 26, Number 18 · November 22, 1979
It Makes You Wonder
By Vernon Young
The Poems of Stanley Kunitz, 1928-1978
by Stanley Kunitz
Atlantic/Little, Brown, 249 pp., $6.95 (paper)
Time: Poems by Yehuda Amichai
by Yehuda Amichai
Harper & Row, 88 pp., $9.95
While some poets can be read exclusively in their poems, without our having recourse to anything else written by them, or without our knowing anything of their biography, this is not the case with Stanley Kunitz. Mr. Kunitz has been for many years of a long life a busy man of letters; his achievements as editor, teacher, reviewer, and translator are worthy ones. Yet these are, perhaps, less dramatic qualifications for fame than having died young or become a political activist or written a manifesto denouncing all American poets influenced by T.S. Eliot.
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