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Kizer, Carolyn Ashley was born on December 10, 1925 in Spokane, Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Daughter of Benjamin Hamilton and M. (Ashley) Kizer.
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Nearness Of You
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Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Kizer, Carolyn (2002) Paperback
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Cool Calm & Collected Poems 1960-2000
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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 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. Also available by Carolyn Kizer Harping On PB $12.00, 1-55659-115-2 • CUSA HC y $22.00, 1-55659-114-4 • CUSA Mermaids in the Basement PB $10.00, 0-914742-81-7 • CUSA Proses: On Poems and Poets PB $12.00, 1-55659-045-8 • CUSA Yin PB
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One Hundred Great Poems By Women
( The winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for "Yi...)
The winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for "Yin" presents the second volume in this popular anthology series, showcasing relatively unknown poets as well as greats such as Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, and Sylvia Plath.
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Ungrateful Garden Gebundene Ausgabe
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The Essential Clare (Essential Poets)
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Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000
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Selected as a "Best Book of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times and Booklist magazine, and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, Cool, Calm, and Collected is a tour de force from one of the nation’s premier poets. For four decades, Carolyn Kizer has been one of the most influential, controversial, and recognizable figures in American poetry. A feminist practically before the term existed, she has never been afraid to say what is on her mind, writing poems infused with sexual politics, social awareness, and literary irreverence. Cool, Calm, and Collected was reprinted four times in cloth and became one of Copper Canyon Press’s bestselling titles. It features new poems, work from all of Kizer’s previous volumes, translations "from a dizzying number of poets" (New York Times), and several prose pieces, including "Pakistan Journal" and "My Good Father." . . . We women, Outside, breathing dust, are still the Other. The evening sun goes down; time to fix dinner. "You women have no major phiolosophers." We know. But we remain philosophic, and say with the Saint, "Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love." —from "Pro Femina" "We cannot do without Kizer and never could—here are four decades of compelling reasons why."—Los Angeles Times "Carolyn Kizer is a national treasure."—San Francisco Chronicle "The book will appeal to poetry lovers and activists of all stripes."—Publishers Weekly "No library should be without this collection."—Booklist (starred review) Carolyn Kizer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College. She co-founded Poetry Northwest; served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts; was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets; and has been a poet-in-residence at Columbia, Stanford, and Princeton. Kizer lives in Sonoma, California.
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Mermaids In The Basement
( A collection of "poems for women" from the Pulitzer Pri...)
A collection of "poems for women" from the Pulitzer Prize winner. A New York Times notable book.
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Knock Upon Silence.
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The Ungrateful Garden (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
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A reissuing of The Ungrateful Garden, poetry by Carolyn Kizer.
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Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995
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MERMAIDS IN THE BASEMENT. Poems for Women.
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Poems for Women by Carolyn Kizer "I started early- took my dog-and visited the sea- The Mermaids in the basement came out to look at me" by Emily Dickinson
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Yin: New Poems
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- Election Day 1984 Broadside Reprinted From Harping on Poems 1985 1995 Signed Edition
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Carolyn Ashley Kizer
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Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American Poet, educator. Recipient award American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1985, President's medal Eastern Washington University, 1988, 4 Governor's award State of Washington, 1965, 85, 95, 98, Silver medal Commonwealth Club, 1997, Aiken Taylor prize Sewanee Review, 1998.
Education
Bachelor, Sarah Lawrence College, 1945. Postgraduate (Chinese government fellow in comparative literature), Columbia University, 1947. Studied poetry with Theodore Roethke, University Washington, 1954.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Whitman College, 1986. Doctor of Letters (honorary), St. Andrew's College, 1989. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Mills College, 1990.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Washington State University, 1991.
Career
Specialist in literature United States Department State, Pakistan, 1964-1965. First director literature programs National Endowment for Arts, 1966-1970. Poet-in-residence University North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970-1974.
Hurst Professor Literature Washington University, St. Louis, 1971. Lecturer Spring Lecture Series Barnard College, 1972. Acting director graduate writing program Columbia University, 1972.
Poet-in-residence Ohio University, 1974. Visiting poet Iowa Writer's Workshop, 1975. Professor University Maryland, 1976-1977.
Poet-in-residence, distinguished visiting lecturer Centre College, Kentucky, 1979. Distinguished visiting poet East Washington University, 1980. Elliston professor poetry University Cincinnati, 1981.
Bingham distinguished professor University Louisville, Kentucky, 1982. Distinguished visiting poet Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, 1982. Visiting poet State University of New York, Albany, 1982.
Professor Columbia University School Arts, 1982. Professor poetry Stanford University, 1986. Senior fellow in humanities Princeton University, 1986.
Visiting professor writing University Arizona, 1989, 90, University California, Davis, 1991. Coal Royalty chair University Alabama, 1995. Participant International Poetry Festivals, London, 1960, 70, Yugoslavia, 1969, 70, Pakistan, 1969, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1970, Knokke-le-Zut, Belgium, 1970, Bordeaux, 1992, Dublin, 1993, Glasgow, 1994.
Senior fellow humanities council Princeton University, 1986.
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One Hundred Great Poems By Women
( The winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for "Yi...)
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Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000
( Selected as a "Best Book of the Year" by the Los Angele...)
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The Nearness of You (Science)
('The Nearness of You' is a companion volume to 'Mermaids ...)
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MERMAIDS IN THE BASEMENT. Poems for Women.
(Poems for Women by Carolyn Kizer "I started early- took m...)
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Cool Calm & Collected Poems 1960-2000
( Sexual politics, social awareness, literary irreverence...)
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Mermaids In The Basement
( A collection of "poems for women" from the Pulitzer Pri...)
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The Ungrateful Garden (Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporary Series: Poetry)
(A reissuing of The Ungrateful Garden, poetry by Carolyn K...)
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The Essential Clare (Essential Poets)
(Book by Kizer, Carolyn, Clare, John)
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Nearness Of You
(Book by Kizer, Carolyn)
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Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Kizer, Carolyn (2002) Paperback
(Second)
- Election Day 1984 Broadside Reprinted From Harping on Poems 1985 1995 Signed Edition
- The Ungrateful Garden
- Ungrateful Garden Gebundene Ausgabe
- (Cool, Calm, & Collected: Poems 1960-2000) Author: Carolyn Kizer published on (February, 2003)
- Knock Upon Silence.
- Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995
- Yin: New Poems
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One Hundred Great Poems By Women
Membership
Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Amnesty International, Poetry Society American (Masefield prize 1983, Frost medal 1988), Academy American Poets (chancellor since 1995).
Connections
Married Stimson Bullitt, January, 1948 (divorced). Children: Ashley Ann, Scott, Jill Hamilton. Married John Marshall Woodbridge, April 11, 1975.
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Recipient award American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1985, President's medal Eastern Washington University, 1988, 5 Governor's awards State of Washington, 1965, 85, 95, 98, 2001, Silver medal Commonwealth Club, 1997, 2002, Aiken Taylor prize Sewanee Review, 1998, Patterson prize, 2002, Western State Lifetime Achievement award, 2002, 1st prize Indiana Public Book award, 2002, Los Angeles Times Top Ten Books award, 2002, Academy prize, 2003, Poets' prize, 2003.Recipient award American Academy and Institute Arts and Letters, 1985, President's medal Eastern Washington University, 1988, 5 Governor's awards State of Washington, 1965, 85, 95, 98, 2001, Silver medal Commonwealth Club, 1997, 2002, Aiken Taylor prize Sewanee Review, 1998, Patterson prize, 2002, Western State Lifetime Achievement award, 2002, 1st prize Indiana Public Book award, 2002, Los Angeles Times Top Ten Books award, 2002, Academy prize, 2003, Poets' prize, 2003.