In his one hundreth year, award-winning poet Stanley Kunitz explores the life cycle, the creative process, and his own life.

Introducing twenty new poems and bringing together works from previous volumes, this collection of 150 poems, arranged in reverse chronological order, represents a half century of work by the distinguished contemporary poet.

This volume contains 13 new poems and nine essays on poets and the art of poetry, on painters and the art of life. It also includes an interview reprinted from the Paris Review coinciding with the author's 80th birthday. The poet offers stirring essays on Robert Lowell, John Keats, Walt Whitman and Philip Guston, as well as notes on his own poem, "The Abduction." The final section, "Seedcorn and Windfall," includes the poet's aphorisms and views on...

"European Authors" is a biographical dictionary, covering European authors from 1000 to 1900.