Carolyn Kizer

Poems 1960-2000

Cool, Calm, and Collected

These “poems for men” make a companion volume to Mermaids in the Basement. Included are new and previously out-of-print poems for lovers, friends, and fathers.

The Nearness of You

Chosen as the inaugural volume of the Copper Canyon Press “Writing Re: Writing” Series—each annual volume to be a major collection of prose on poetry by a leading poet—Proses collects essays and reviews by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and feminist, Carolyn Kizer.
 
Kizer assays the work of many contemporary poets, including Denise Levertov, James Merrill, Louise Bogan, Robert Creeley, Marge Piercy, Hayden Carruth, and John Berryman. She covers the first major American assessment of the English poet John Clare and discusses the influence of Alexander Pope on her own poetry. She also contributes a major autobiographical essay.

On Poems and Poets

Proses

A collection of “poems for women” from Pulitzer Prize winner Carolyn Kizer. A New York Times notable book.

Poems for Women

Mermaids in the Basement

Carolyn Kizer presents ten years of poetry in Harping On. Kizer’s concerns have remained constant while she has honed her technical skills and broadened her vision.
 
“She is all woman and all poet, and as a poet she is consummately skilled, literary, ebullient, and daring to the nth degree; she choirs it all out there: loves, passions, vanities, peeves, humor, parody—the whole gorgeous shebang.” —Poetry Flash

Poems, 1985-1995

Harping On

Poems from the Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Yiddish, and French African translated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carolyn Kizer.

Carrying Over

The Ungrateful Garden

New Poems

Poetry. Chapbook. "A first-wave feminist Ur-text..." --Publishers Weekly. "The publication of Carolyn Kizer's Pro Femina sequence in book form is an event that calls for champagne, essays, discussions, a prize or two: above all, celebration" --Marilyn Hacker.

A Poem : with a Note by the Author

Pro Femina

Annie Finch

Johanna Keller

Candace McClelland

Critical essays about the poet and her work, interviews with Kizer, and poems written in her honor. Kizer's gifts are acknowledged in this book: her humor, her mythological scope, political awareness, satirical wit, feminism, craft, lyricism, her role in shaping literary institutions and her charisma. Carolyn Kizer is a celebration of the poetry itself, of the enduring work that places Kizer in the pantheon of living American poets.

Perspectives on Her Life and Work

Robert Hass

John Holmes

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens.

American Poetry: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker

An authoritative, best-selling edition of poetry by acclaimed novelist--now available in paper.

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