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Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Kunitz
The author of many collections of poetry, Stanley Kunitz won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Selected Poems, 1928-1958...
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FURTHER READING
Poems about Jewish Experience
Kaddish, Part I
by Allen Ginsberg
A Little History
by David Lehman
Afterlife
by Joan Larkin
Fugue of Death
by Paul Celan
Hey Allen Ginsberg Where Have You Gone and What Would You Think of My Drugs?
by Rachel Zucker
In a Country
by Larry Levis
In the Park
by Maxine Kumin
Jew
by Michael Blumenthal
Kissing Stieglitz Good-Bye
by Gerald Stern
Notes on the Spring Holidays, III, [Hanukkah]
by Charles Reznikoff
The Poem as Mask
by Muriel Rukeyser
Poems about Resilience
Birdcall
by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Immigrant Blues
by Li-Young Lee
In California During the Gulf War
by Denise Levertov
Reasons To Survive November
by Tony Hoagland
The Bear
by Galway Kinnell
Travelling Against
by Karen Houle
What is Broken is What God Blesses
by Jimmy Santiago Baca
You Can't Survive on Salt Water
by Kalamu ya Salaam
Zulu
by Jen Benka
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An Old Cracked Tune  
by Stanley Kunitz

My name is Solomon Levi,
the desert is my home,
my mother's breast was thorny,
and father I had none.

The sands whispered, Be separate,
the stones taught me, Be hard.
I dance, for the joy of surviving,
on the edge of the road.  



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From The Collected Poems by Stanley Kunitz (W. W. Norton, 2000). Copyright © 1971 by Stanley Kunitz. Used by permission of W. W. Norton. All rights reserved.
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