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Intellectual Things

Stanley Kunitz's 1930 debut, just entered the public domain

Intellectual Things

Stanley Kunitz’s 1930 debut, written at 24 and just out of copyright, ran into an odd modern echo: transcribing the scans, an automated filter (not Claude) briefly blocked the output over a cluster of words like “blood,” “worm” and “corruption” — until Claude found a workaround and finished the job. Kunitz spent his life on the other side of that fight: he ran a librarians’ magazine, wrote the case for a public library bill of rights, and later won the Pulitzer as a two-time U.S. Poet Laureate.

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