Poetry Breaks: Stanley Kunitz Reads "The Layers"

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7 жыл бұрын

The Poetry Breaks series is a series of videos filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who co-produced the series with the WGBH New Television Workshops. Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations. The Academy of American Poets has partnered with Luchetti to present these videos once again.

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@MelodyWainscott 2 жыл бұрын

“Live in the layers not on the litter.” Glorious, nimbus-clouded voice!

@lawrencewray1663 3 жыл бұрын

"How shall the heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?" A stunningly beautiful question.

@t.tokuyama869 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed and agreed.

@louisasmith9388 2 жыл бұрын

Finally, after decades, I understand this (I believe), my *favorite* poem for those many years.

@trae1965 9 ай бұрын

S.K.-Master of the dramatic lyric. Interesting how his poems glow even brighter these many years after his passing...

@BUKCOLLECTOR 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed your poems. And your unique word choices enhanced the poems emotional impact and kept me engaged throughout. I’m a poet specializing in Japanese forms: haiku, tanka, haibun, kyoka, senryu. I hope you don’t mind me sharing a tanka and my haiku, a tribute poem to Bashō’s frog with commentary by the late AHA founder and poet Jane Reichhold who considered my Basho haiku among her top 10 haiku of all time. What an honor. Here’s the Bashō poem and commentary: Bashō’s frog four hundred years of ripples At first the idea of picking only 10 of my favorite haiku seemed a rather daunting task. How could I review all the haiku I have read in my life and decide that there were only 10 that were outstanding? Then realized I was already getting a steady stream of excellent haiku day by day through the AHA forum. The puns and write-offs based on Basho's most famous haiku are so numerous I would have said that nothing new could be said with this method, but here Al Fogel proved me wrong. Perhaps part of my delight in this haiku lies in the fact that I agree with him. Here he is saying one thing about realism-ripples are on a pond after a frog jumps in, but because it refers back to Basho and his famous haiku, he is also saying something about the haiku and authors who have followed him. We, and our work, are just ripples while Basho holds the honor of inventing the idea of the sound of a frog leaping is the sound of water As haiku spreads around the world, making ripples in more and larger ponds, its ripples are wider-including us all. But his last word reminds us all that we are ripples and our lives ephemeral. It will be the frogs that will remain. ~~ And my tanka: returning home from a Jackson Pollock exhibition I smear my face with paint and morph into art ~~ -All love in isolation from Miami Beach, Florida, Al

@iasmimsilva5613 Жыл бұрын

lindo lindo lindo ❤

@josephperkovich28 5 жыл бұрын

I'm really into Kunitz's poetry lately. The way he reads this reminds me a little of Dylan Thomas reading, of all people. Something to do with the cadence and falling tones. See "The force that through the green fuse" for example

@PolkRidgeAesthete 2 жыл бұрын

Fine observation! I think that partially explains why I fine Kunitz both so familiar and commanding here.