dead Stanley Kunitz

[Grim Reaper 186]

This is the place to discuss Stanley Kunitz

[football_fan 42]

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

[Banshees Scream 110]

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.

[Tempus Fugit 214]

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.

Yes Centaurs abound,

it's certain that of that 100% at least 50% will be 75% probables.

[Godot 149]

I think there should be a limit on centenarians. No more than one per list. Two at most. Four is bordering on cheating.

[Banshees Scream 110]

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.

[Godot 149]

I disagree with that too.

[football_fan 42]

Stanley Kunitz

 

[Windsor 2,233]

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.

[Canadian Paul 97]

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?

[Sticky Threads 0]

I'm sure he would, although hardly anyone will have heard of him.

[Paul Bearer 6,119]

Stanley Kunitz

 

He only looks about 80 odds in that photo

[Canadian Paul 97]

Stanley Kunitz

 

He only looks about 80 odds in that photo

Looking far better than Mr. Lane too...

 

[Tempus Fugit 214]

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.

[Godot 149]

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.

[weatherman90 7]

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?

[Canadian Paul 97]

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.

[Slave to the Grave 26]

I think I see stubble. I'd place my bet on man.

You never met my Grandmother.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

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.

[Guest Bookdragon]

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.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

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.

[Guest AbsintheBleu]

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!

[Banshees Scream 110]

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.

[BrunoBrimley 86]

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.

[Banshees Scream 110]

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.