Grab Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995 Expressed By Carolyn Kizer Contained In Manuscript

wanted to engage and like this more than I did, but alas, This book its ordered by having at least two to three long poems by this, figure the longer pieces to be one to three pages in length shorter explorations and extrapolations are about one quarter of a page entirely, no less, no more.
Somewhat manically dizzying experience to be had by all, The truly marvelous "FindeSiecle Blues" ends this collection which I never would've finished if I hadn't grown dreadfully bored and then jumped to the back, Then I spent the rest of the time searching for something that matched it in terms of wit, effortlessness, scope, surprise, . . But the rest were either belabored homework assignments or just downright awful, Then again, I've never written anything quite like "FindeSiecle Blues, " That's not nothing! Have you Wise, powerful, engaging, Carolyn Kizer has a talent for drawing you in and appealing to both your mind and your emotions, A couple poems I liked in particular: "Anniversaries: Claremont Avenue, from" pageand "Twelve O'Clock" pagealso see the note on page, The first collection in ten years by one of the most respected and loved poets in American poetry, Poet, essayist, and translator Carolyn Kizer was born inin Spokane, Washington, Raised by a prominent lawyer and highly educated mother, Kizers childhood was suffused with poetry,

Of her development as a poet, she noted to the Poetry Society of America: “My parents were both romantics: father favored the poems of John Keats mother went for Walt Whitman.
No evening of my childhood passed without my being read to, But I think my choices of Gertrude Stein and George Bernard Shaw show that my tastes were different, I remember that when I was eleven or twelve I came storming home from school demanding, Why didnt you ever tell me about Alexander Pope and John Dryden They were stunned.
Our library, copious as it was, didnt Poet, essayist, and translator Carolyn Kizer was born inin Spokane, Washington, Raised by a prominent lawyer and highly educated mother, Kizers childhood was suffused with poetry, Of her development as a poet, she noted to the Poetry Society of America: “My parents were both romantics: father favored the poems of John Keats mother went for Walt Whitman.
No evening of my childhood passed without my being read to, But I think my choices of Gertrude Stein and George Bernard Shaw show that my tastes were different, I remember that when I was eleven or twelve I came storming home from school demanding, Why didn't you ever tell me about Alexander Pope and John Dryden They were stunned.
Our library, copious as it was, didn't contain the works of either, These were lasting influences. I have continued to prefer, and write, poems that have what you might call a sting in the tail, Add Catullus and Juvenal. I adored wit, irony, and intellectual precision, ” Kizers work is known for just those traits, From her early poems in The Ungrateful Gardento the Pulitzer prize winning Yin: New Poemsto such later works as Pro Femina, which satirizes liberated women writers by mimicking the hexameter used by the ancient misogynist poet Juvenal, and her retrospective Calm, Cool, and Collected: Poems, Kizers work has received acclaim for its intellectual rigor, formal mastery, and willingness to engage with political realities.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Carolyn Kizer is a kind of institution For overyears, she's made poems with a stern work ethic of literary thought and linguistic scrupulousness.
” In an interview with Allan Jalon for the Los Angeles Times, Kizer described her own style: “Im not a formalist, not a confessional poet, not strictly a free verse poet.
” Jalon described Kizer as, “Tough without being cold, sometimes satirical shes a great admirer of Alexander Pope,” and noted that “her work expresses a worldly largeness that repeatedly focuses on the points at which lives meet.
Thats my subject,” concluded Kizer, “No matter how brief an encounter you have with anybody, you both change, ” sitelink.