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Stanley Kunitz
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STANLEY KUNITZ
The Art of Poetry No. 29
Interviewed by Chris Busa
Issue 83, Spring 1982
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INTERVIEWER
Your poems are packed; they have a weight. To me, it is a question of scale.

KUNITZ
Thanks. I've heard the opposite reaction, that my poems are too heavy. One critic wrote quite recently that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know why, but somehow that made me feel quite lighthearted.
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