Background
Fraser, Kathleen Joy was born on March 22, 1935 in Tulsa. Daughter of James Ian and Marjorie Joy (Axtell) Fraser.
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Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
( A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal a...)
A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths. An accomplished and influential poet, Kathleen Fraser has been instrumental in drawing attention to other women poets working outside the mainstream. Translating the Unspeakable gathers eighteen of her essays written over nearly twenty years, combining autobiography and criticism to examine what it means for any artist to innovate instead of following an already traveled path. In autobiographical passages Fraser tells how her generation was influenced by revolutions in art and philosophy during the early 1960s and how she spent years pursuing idiosyncratic means of rediscovering the poem's terms. By the 1970s her evolving poetics were challenged by questions of gender, until immersion in feminist/modernist scholarship led her to initiate greater dialogue among experimentalist poets. Other essays examine modernist women writers, their contemporary successors, and the visual poetics they have practiced. By exploring the work of such poets as H. D., Mina Loy, Lorine Niedecker, and Barbara Guest, Fraser conveys their struggle to establish a presence within accepted poetic conventions and describes the role experimentation plays in helping women overcome self-imposed silence. All of Fraser's writings explore how the search to find one's own way of speaking into a very private yet historic space—of translating the unspeakable—drives poetic experimentation for women and men alike. This provocative book provides a glimpse into the thought processes of the poetic mind, enhancing our understanding of innovative writing.
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Notes Preceding Trust
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Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake
(Poetry.)
Poetry.
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il cuore - the heart: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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il cuore : the heart is a major new collection of poetry by Kathleen Fraser, one of the most significant poets of the last generation and a writer of unusual courage and inventiveness. From the intimacy of early poems to the syntactic play of her much-praised book, when new time folds up (1993), Fraser's work examines fields of possibility, where the visual, theoretical, and lyrical collide. This book provides a generous selection of work both new and old, tracing the development of her poetics over the last three decades. Rich with detail, these poems radicalize intention by embracing error, as in "boundayr," and reassert language innovation as a feminist strategy. They lead us toward "the infinity of a door only slightly ajar" and have established Fraser as one of America's preeminent experimental writers.
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When New Time Folds Up
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Three poems: Etruscan Pages, Giotto : Arena, and when new time folds up.
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Stilts, Somersaults, and Headstands; Game Poems Based on a Painting by Peter Breughel
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First Edition Stated. Cloth. Atheneum, N. Y. (1968) Peter Breughel Good. No Jacket Ex-school Library. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Ex lib, cover is slightly soiled, interior very tight and clean, A unique book of game poems illustrated by Peter Breughel, written by Kathleen Fraser.
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Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling
(Poetry. "DISCRETE CATEGORIES FORCED INTO COUPLING is cons...)
Poetry. "DISCRETE CATEGORIES FORCED INTO COUPLING is consummate masterwork by a singuarly perceptive and articulate poet. Deceptively quiet in manner, its intimate foci and tone make clear the ground of our contemporary lives, our 'being together' despite the distances of isolating thought. I love Kathleen Fraser's extraordinary intelligence, her persistent care for where she is—and for all those she finds there too"—Robert Creeley. "Here is a language of poetry that recognizes, beyond its intimacies, the intellectual and elusively sensate aspects of visual and literary aesthetic connection"—Carla Harryman.
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- Stilts, Somersaults, and Headstands: Game Poems Based on a Painting by Peter Breughel.
- Notes Preceding Trust by Kathleen Fraser (1987-08-02)
- il cuore – the heart: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 (Wesleyan Poetry Series) (il cuore: the heart is a major new collection of poetry b...)
- Notes Preceding Trust by Kathleen Fraser (1987-08-03)
Kathleen Joy Fraser
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Education
Bachelor in English Literature, Occidental College, 1958. Doctoral equivalency, San Francisco State University, 1976.
Career
Visiting professor writing, lecturer in poetry, The Writer's Workshop, U. Iowa, Iowa City, 1969-1971; writer in residence, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1971-1972; director Poetry Center, San Francisco State University, 1972-1975; professor creative writing, San Francisco State University, 1972-1992. Founder-director American Poetry Archives, San Francisco, 1973-1975. Founder-editor How(ever), Journal for poets/scholars interested in modernism and women's innovative writing, 1983-1991.
Achievements
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il cuore - the heart: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(il cuore : the heart is a major new collection of poetry ...)
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il cuore – the heart: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
(il cuore: the heart is a major new collection of poetry b...)
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Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)
( A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal a...)
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When New Time Folds Up
(Three poems: Etruscan Pages, Giotto : Arena, and when new...)
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Stilts, Somersaults, and Headstands; Game Poems Based on a Painting by Peter Breughel
(First Edition Stated. Cloth. Atheneum, N. Y. (1968) Pete...)
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Something (even human voices) in the foreground, a lake
(Poetry.)
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Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling
(Poetry. "DISCRETE CATEGORIES FORCED INTO COUPLING is cons...)
- Stilts, Somersaults, and Headstands: Game Poems Based on a Painting by Peter Breughel.
- Notes Preceding Trust
- Notes Preceding Trust by Kathleen Fraser (1987-08-02)
- Notes Preceding Trust by Kathleen Fraser (1987-08-03)
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il cuore - the heart: Selected Poems, 1970-1995 (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
Connections
Married Jack Marshall, July 10, 1960 (divorced 1970). 1 child, David Ian; Married Arthur Kalmer Bierman, June 30, 1984.
