Grim Reaper 185 Posted January 1, 2006 This is the place to discuss Stanley Kunitz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_fan 41 Posted January 1, 2006 According to latest reports, he was too frail to attend the a November dinner in Manhattan to honor the ten living US Poet Laureates. He is definitely one to keep an eye on. Stanley Kunitz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 109 Posted January 1, 2006 The heights of this years list are crowded with cenetarians and out of 4 it's practically certain that 50% of that will be successful. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempus Fugit 213 Posted January 2, 2006 The heights of this years list are crowded with cenetarians and out of 4it's practically certain that 50% of that will be successful. Yes Centaurs abound, it's certain that of that 100% at least 50% will be 75% probables. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Godot 149 Posted January 2, 2006 I think there should be a limit on centenarians. No more than one per list. Two at most. Four is bordering on cheating. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 109 Posted January 2, 2006 I think there should be a limit on centenarians. No more than one per list. Two at most. Four is bordering on cheating. It's been said before but if they got fame there invited. Besides it you have three 95 year olds on the list for 5 years then does that mean two have to leave because they are a too old? I would disagree with that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Godot 149 Posted January 2, 2006 I disagree with that too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
football_fan 41 Posted January 2, 2006 Stanley Kunitz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windsor 2,210 Posted January 2, 2006 I think there should be a limit on centenarians. No more than one per list. Two at most. Four is bordering on cheating. Not really. The aim of deathlist is to get as many dead celebrities as they can in a year. It is a common fact (except in the case of Brooke Astor) that if one is a centenarian, the likely hood of death is increased. Therefore there will be more hits. As far as I am concerned as long as the centenarian is someone who is famous, it should count. All except those famed for their age such as WWI veterans and World's oldest are acceptable. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 93 Posted January 2, 2006 I think there should be a limit on centenarians. No more than one per list. Two at most. Four is bordering on cheating. Not really. The aim of deathlist is to get as many dead celebrities as they can in a year. It is a common fact (except in the case of Brooke Astor) that if one is a centenarian, the likely hood of death is increased. Therefore there will be more hits. As far as I am concerned as long as the centenarian is someone who is famous, it should count. All except those famed for their age such as WWI veterans and World's oldest are acceptable. Speaking of fame, would Kunitz even get a UK obit? I mean, he was poet laureate of the U.S., so he'll obviously get one on this side, but mightn't he be overlooked over there? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sticky Threads 0 Posted January 2, 2006 I'm sure he would, although hardly anyone will have heard of him. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Paul Bearer 5,975 Posted January 2, 2006 Stanley Kunitz He only looks about 80 odds in that photo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 93 Posted January 2, 2006 Stanley Kunitz He only looks about 80 odds in that photo Looking far better than Mr. Lane too... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tempus Fugit 213 Posted January 2, 2006 Looking far better than Mr. Lane too... That man can't be alive, he looks like someone's just dug him up. Christ I hope I die way before I look that bad. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Godot 149 Posted January 2, 2006 I think there should be a limit on centenarians. No more than one per list. Two at most. Four is bordering on cheating. Not really. The aim of deathlist is to get as many dead celebrities as they can in a year. It is a common fact (except in the case of Brooke Astor) that if one is a centenarian, the likely hood of death is increased. Therefore there will be more hits. As far as I am concerned as long as the centenarian is someone who is famous, it should count. All except those famed for their age such as WWI veterans and World's oldest are acceptable. I think Brooke Astor is a real fraud. I mean she hasn't done anything apart from being very wealthy and being named Astor and living to a great age. I had never ever heard of her nor was I likely to have done had I not stumbled on this site and filled my head full of rubbish. Still, sheeplike I put her on my list. Stanley Kunitz? Does ayone know of a single poem that he's written? Can Americans write poetry? Who do they have apart from miserable Emily Dickinson? She'd make a natural deathlister in fact I think she has been re-incarnated as BrunoBrimley. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
weatherman90 7 Posted February 11, 2006 Looking far better than Mr. Lane too... That man can't be alive, he looks like someone's just dug him up. Christ I hope I die way before I look that bad. Is that a MAN or a WOMAN next to him...or is it PAT? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Canadian Paul 93 Posted February 12, 2006 Looking far better than Mr. Lane too... That man can't be alive, he looks like someone's just dug him up. Christ I hope I die way before I look that bad. Is that a MAN or a WOMAN next to him...or is it PAT? I think I see stubble. I'd place my bet on man. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Slave to the Grave 24 Posted February 12, 2006 I think I see stubble. I'd place my bet on man. You never met my Grandmother. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrunoBrimley 85 Posted February 28, 2006 Stanley Kunitz Oh but hes a cutie isnpt he? Never heard of this man before wqos so now I need to do wsome reeseardch. Back l;ater. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Bookdragon Posted March 2, 2006 I think there should be a limit on centenarians. No more than one per list. Two at most. Four is bordering on cheating. Not really. The aim of deathlist is to get as many dead celebrities as they can in a year. It is a common fact (except in the case of Brooke Astor) that if one is a centenarian, the likely hood of death is increased. Therefore there will be more hits. As far as I am concerned as long as the centenarian is someone who is famous, it should count. All except those famed for their age such as WWI veterans and World's oldest are acceptable. I think Brooke Astor is a real fraud. I mean she hasn't done anything apart from being very wealthy and being named Astor and living to a great age. I had never ever heard of her nor was I likely to have done had I not stumbled on this site and filled my head full of rubbish. Still, sheeplike I put her on my list. Stanley Kunitz? Does ayone know of a single poem that he's written? Can Americans write poetry? Who do they have apart from miserable Emily Dickinson? She'd make a natural deathlister in fact I think she has been re-incarnated as BrunoBrimley. Please don't show your ignorance. There are many worthy American poets, and Stanley is one of the best. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrunoBrimley 85 Posted March 2, 2006 Stanley Kunitz? Does ayone know of a single poem that he's written? Can Americans write poetry? Who do they have apart from miserable Emily Dickinson? She'd make a natural deathlister in fact I think she has been re-incarnated as BrunoBrimley. Now I hope you don't go getting your Feathers in an uproar Goodot. And what about Robert Lowell? Charles Bukowski? Ezra Pound? Walt Whitman? The wonderful and talented e.e.cummings? Counttee Cullen? Langston Hughes? Philip Levine? Vachel Lindsay? Sylvia Plath (although a little bleak at times)? Edna St. Vincent Millay? Edgar Lee Masters? And how dare youy say I am Dickinson reincarnated......Thjat sir is an outrage and a lie. Clearly I am Edwin Arlington Robinson from Head Tide Maine born in 1869 and who bit the dust in 1935 at the tender age of 31 and 34 combined. Best remembered for classics such as Miniver Cheevy and the Richard Cory one which Simone and Garfunkel turned into a hit tune about suicide. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest AbsintheBleu Posted March 3, 2006 OK... have to post a Kunitz poem here: Dissolving in the chemic vat Of time, man (gristle and fat), Corrupting on a rock in space That crumbles, lifts his impermanent fact To watch the stars, his brain locked tight Against the tall revolving night. Yet is he neither here nor there Because the mind moves everywhere; And he is neither now nor then Because tomorrow comes again Foreshadowed, and the ragged wing Of yesterday's remembering Cuts sharply the immediate moon; Nor is he always; late and soon Becoming, never being, till Becoming is a being still. Here, Now, and Always, man would be Inviolate eternally: This is his spirit's trinity. The more of his work you read, you'll see how much of a focus he has on nature, man's mortality, and the cycle of life and death. These would seem to be particularly good themes for this venue! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 109 Posted March 3, 2006 Theres people to your left And theres people to your right This worlds full of troubles From Nightmares to fright With murder and crime Everywhere you look How many years will it be untill it's over? How many years has it took? Life is filled with sorrow despair and pain With very little sunshine And storms of rain And though there are many good people all around There are just as many bad Walking the green earths ground A short opinion on our world today. This took me 2 minutes to write. Although Kunitz has good work. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrunoBrimley 85 Posted March 4, 2006 Cheerful little dittty Barnshees. Don't give up your daY job though. And now for the corrected version of Banshees post,. There's people to your left.....(.add an apostrophe) And there's people to your right.....(add an apostrophe) This world's full of troubles....(agasin, add an apostrophe) From nightmares to fright ...(lower case n would suffice in nightmare) With murder and crime Everywhere you look How many years will it be until it's over? (remioved an 'L' from until) How many years has it took? Life is filled with sorrow despair and pain With very little sunshine And storms of rain And though there are many good people all around There are just as many bad Walking the green earth's ground....(again I needed ton add an apostrophe to indicate that the ground belongs to the green earth.....possibly earth should be capitialized if you are refering it to as a planet and not soil) Overall grade B+ on content and idea communication, C+ on grammar and spelling. Final grade B (I used a bell curve and upped it a smidgelet.) I do not grade on style, that would not be proper. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 109 Posted March 4, 2006 Overall grade B+ on content and idea communication, C+ on grammar and spelling. Final grade B. For 2 minutes of thinking I widely accept my final grade. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites