The Layers Resources

Websites

Foundational Kunitz

Here's a comprehensive biography as well as links to forty poems.

The Academy of American Poets

Check out another source for background info with poems to check out.

More Fodder

Here's one more resourceful website with a bio, quotes, and poems.

Video

Watch Stanley Read

Here's an awesome video of Kunitz reading his work accompanied by an equally awesome quote concerning his take on poetry. (The likeness to Yoda... can you see it?)

Interview

This video interview and reading with Gregory Orr is a must see.

Audio

Kunitz Reads "The Layers"

Is it everything you hoped for?

Another Reading on NPR

This NPR page provides "The Long Boat" in audio and text formats. Before Stanley starts to read, he says, "Everybody knows I'm not a youngster… and that's all right with me." Priceless.

Images

Writing Old-School Style

This is how real writers used to get it done.

His Slightly Younger Years

Okay, okay, let's be fair. This pic is pre-nineties—pre-ninety years old that is.

Articles and Interviews

The Paris Review

Here's a Paris Review interview from 1977 with Chris Busa.

The Atlantic in Awe

This article from The Atlantic captures Kunitz as a visionary.

Books

The Collected Poems

Check out The Collected Poems, last reprinted in 2002, including "The Layers."

Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected

Want more? Here's another book of his collected works.

The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

Kunitz is in his element. Check out these reflective, wise poems centered around nature.