But if you spend enough years...One thing I was surprised at Poets House was so many small printings, privately printed things, people using their computers to print their poems. I mean, there's so much, really, proliferation of small publications of poetry, which I was not aware of before, and perhaps computers are the root of some of it.
Creative Process
Technology
00:29:27
Well, not for me. I'm not even computer savvy and I don't want to be.
Creative Process
Technology
00:29:40
Mhm. I feel very old fashioned in that respect. Not in the poems, but in the technological aspect. I like the physical sense of--I worked with a pencil, first, on paper and, as I've already indicated to you, I produced sheet after sheet of paper and then whittled it down finally.
Creative Process
Technology
00:30:13
Well, I go from pencil to pen and then to my old, battered Hermes. How many thousand? It's called Hermes 2000, yeah. Mhm.
Creative Process
Technology
00:30:33
Hard to get it repaired, probably.
Creative Process
Technology
00:30:45
The moment I stopped using my electric typewriter was when I couldn't get it repaired anymore. I decided to use the computer.
Creative Process
Technology
00:31:03
I have acquired two electric typewriters in my life, and I never managed to become efficient with either one of them.
Interview with Stanley Kunitz, April 24, 2002
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00:29:04 - 00:29:27
But if you spend enough years...One thing I was surprised at Poets House was so many small printings, privately printed things, people using their computers to print their poems. I mean, there's so much, really, proliferation of small publications of poetry, which I was not aware of before, and perhaps computers are the root of some of it.
Mel Gussow
Transcript
Poets House
Publication
Technology
00:29:27 - 00:29:35
Well, not for me. I'm not even computer savvy and I don't want to be.
Stanley Kunitz
Transcript
Technology
Laughter
00:29:40 - 00:30:09
Mhm. I feel very old fashioned in that respect. Not in the poems, but in the technological aspect. I like the physical sense of--I worked with a pencil, first, on paper and, as I've already indicated to you, I produced sheet after sheet of paper and then whittled it down finally.
Stanley Kunitz
Transcript
Technology
Creative Process
00:30:13 - 00:30:33
Well, I go from pencil to pen and then to my old, battered Hermes. How many thousand? It's called Hermes 2000, yeah. Mhm.
Stanley Kunitz
Transcript
Laughter
Technology
00:30:33 - 00:30:37
Hard to get it repaired, probably.
Mel Gussow
Transcript
Technology
00:30:45 - 00:30:51
The moment I stopped using my electric typewriter was when I couldn't get it repaired anymore. I decided to use the computer.
Mel Gussow
Transcript
Technology
00:31:03 - 00:31:19
I have acquired two electric typewriters in my life, and I never managed to become efficient with either one of them.