Word: kunitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purrs in dramatic Russian. English translations are usually read by a British actor named Barry Boys, or by fellow poets. Between poems, Yevtushenko often banters with the audience in adequate English and with natural charm. The overall reaction is either passionate enthusiasm or cold rage. Says Poet Stanley Kunitz: "To reach out to so large an audience has an element of adventure. Extravaganzas relieve the tedium of an age." Poet Allen Ginsberg was inspired to dithyrambics: "He is trying his best to unify Russian-American Soul under the banner of poesy; in heaven, great golden thrones of credit are given...
...particular misfortune to be a merely good poet born into a generation of geniuses. His six volumes of dry Eliotic verse won considerable honor, but they have often been roasted by the brighter young critics-or consigned to the honorable unmentioned shelf along with volumes by Leonie Adams, Stanley Kunitz, Babette Deutsch and Mark Van Doren...