A Feast of Losses: Yetta Dine and Her Son, the Poet Stanley Kunitz

Perhaps the most enduring poet of his generation, Stanley Kunitz once observed that “poetry is for the sake of the life.” Based on his mother's recently recovered memoir, diary and letters, Judith Ferrara's A Feast of Losses offers fresh and intimate insights into both her own and her son's lives. Yetta Dine emigrated from Lithuania to New York's Lower East Side in 1890 and learned the garment trade before moving to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1893 to marry Solomon Kunitz. Readers will hav...