The Layers Resources

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

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

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

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?)

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

Is it everything you hoped for?

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.

This is how real writers used to get it done.

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

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

This article from The Atlantic captures Kunitz as a visionary.

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

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

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