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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN num: 9781556591464
ISBN number: 1556591462
Label: Copper Canyon Press
Manufacturer: Copper Canyon Press
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Page Count: 400
Printing Date: November 01, 2000
Publishing house: Copper Canyon Press
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Sexual politics, social awareness, literary irreverence-Carolyn Kizer is the indisputable grande dame of American letters. Never afraid to say what is on her mind, in her poetry Kizer has always done so with both grace and flair.
For four decades she has been one of the most influential, controversial, and recognizable figures in American poetry: as an early feminist, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, as a Roethke student, as the very first director of the National Endowment for the Arts's literary program, as a member of the board of The Academy of American Poets (from which she resigned, in protest, in 1999), and as the founding editor of the influential Poetry Northwest.
Cool, Calm & Collected is a 'new and collected' volume by one of Copper Canyon Press's all-time bestselling poets. It gathers new poems together with work from all of Kizer's eight previous volumes, several of which have been unavailable for many years.
from 'Pro Femina'
From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women.
How unwomanly to discuss it! Like a noose or an albatross necktie
The clinical sobriquet hangs us: cod-piece coveters.
Never mind these epithets; I myself have collected some honeys.
Juvenal set us apart in denouncing our vices
Which had grown, in part, from having been set apart:
Women abused their spouses, cuckolded them, even plotted
To poison them. Sensing, behind the violence of his manner-
'Think I'm crazy or drunk?'-his emotional stake in us,
As we forgive Strindberg and Nietzsche, we forgive all those
Who cannot forget us. We are hyenas. Yes, we admit it
Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington in 1925 and currently lives in Sonoma, California. She is the author of eight previous books of poetry, two collections of essays, and has edited several anthologies and volumes of translations. Her collection Yin won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize.
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Carolyn Kizer has done the world of poetry a favor by issuing another stellar collection of poems for sheer entertainment, soul-pondering, reflection, escape, psyche-pleasure and engagement with the joys of the music of the written word. Her finest piece to date is a villanelle, a poignant commentary on the Gulf War of several years ago. While not included in this collection, it bears reciting here to get an idea of the value of Carolyn's verse:(On a Line from Valery) The whole purple sky is dying. the last tree flares/ With a great burst of supernatural rose/ Under a canopy of poisonous airs.
Could we imagine our return to prayers/ To end in time before time's final throes,/ The purple sky dying as the last tree flares?
But we were young in judgment, gray in hairs/ Who could make peace; but it was war we chose,/ To spread its canopy of poisoning airs.
Not all our children's pleas and women's stares/ Could steer us from this hell. And now God knows/ His whole purple sky is dying as it flares.
Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares./ This dreadful century staggers to its close/ And the sky dies for us, its poisoned heirs.
All rain was dust. Its granules were our cares./ Throats burst as everywhere winter arose/ To kill the whole purple sky. The last tree bears/ Within its canopy ripe poisoned pears.
Enjoy this newest work of art by as talented a poet as they come.
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