Proses On Poems and Poets

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.