Stanley Kunitz
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Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected
Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz, one of the masters of contemporary poetry, presents his ninth collection, gathering a rich selection of his work, including new poems that remind us of his prefatory statement: “Art is the chalice into which we pour the wine of transcendence.” Nearly all the poems of Kunitz’s later years, beginning with “The Testing-Tree” (1971), are included, and most of the poems in Passing Through are unavailable in any other edition. In “Touch Me,” the last poem in the collection, Kunitz propounds a question, “What makes the engine go?” and gives us his…
