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Happy Birthday, Stanley Kunitz! | Poems Rethabile Likes 🎂 Happy Birthday, Stanley Kunitz! Poet • Pulitzer Winner • U.S. Poet Laureate • born 29 July 1905 Today we celebrate the birthday of Stanley Kunitz — one of America's most enduring and beloved poets. Here is his masterful poem, "The Layers," a meditation on loss, resilience, and the ongoing work of transformation. The Layers I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray. When I look behind, as I am compelled to look before I can gather strength to proceed on my journey, I see the milestones dwindling toward the horizon and the slow fires trailing from the abandoned camp-sites, over which scavenger angels wheel on heavy w...