Rye, NH

Mimi White [March 2005]
Poet, teacher

Next-To-Last-Things, Stanley Kunitz. I read this for the first time in 1987 and I return to it often, so often in fact, that it is now two worn covers and several loose-leaf, dog-eared pages. Stanley Kunitz will be one hundred in July, 2005. He has a rare combination of poetic wisdom, humility, and energy that teaches me over and over again what it means to be human. The book is a collection of poems, interviews and journal entries.