Carolyn Kizer
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
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 first director of the National...
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
In Pro Femina, she writes: "From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women. / How unworthy to discuss it! Like a noose... / 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..."
Author
Series
American poets continuum volume 10
Publisher
Boa Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
The American poet's Pulitzer prize-winning volume focuses on themes of feminine perceptions and creativity.
Author
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
"Did you see someone cold-cock a blind nun? / Well, I did. Two helpful idiots / Steered her across the tarmac to her plane / And led her smack into the wing. / She deplaned with two black eyes & a crooked wimple, / Bruised proof that the distinction is not simple / Between ineptitude and evil."
