{"product_id":"cool-calm-collected-poems-1960-2000","title":"Cool, Calm, \u0026 Collected: Poems, 1960-2000","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCool, Calm, \u0026amp; Collected: Poems, 1960-2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eCarolyn Kizer\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781556591464\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCopper Canyon Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2000\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e520\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSexual 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Cool, Calm \u0026amp; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom \"Pro Femina\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women.\u003cbr\u003eHow unwomanly to discuss it! Like a noose or an albatross necktie\u003cbr\u003eThe clinical sobriquet hangs us: cod-piece coveters.\u003cbr\u003eNever mind these epithets; I myself have collected some honeys.\u003cbr\u003eJuvenal set us apart in denouncing our vices\u003cbr\u003eWhich had grown, in part, from having been set apart: \u003cbr\u003eWomen abused their spouses, cuckolded them, even plotted\u003cbr\u003eTo poison them. Sensing, behind the violence of his manner \u003cbr\u003e\"Think I m crazy or drunk?\" his emotional stake in us, \u003cbr\u003eAs we forgive Strindberg and Nietzsche, we forgive all those\u003cbr\u003eWho cannot forget us. We are hyenas. Yes, we admit it \"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarolyn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso available by Carolyn Kizer\u003cbr\u003e\"Harping On\"\u003cbr\u003ePB $12.00, 1-55659-115-2 CUSA\u003cbr\u003eHC y $22.00, 1-55659-114-4 CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\"Mermaids in the Basement\"\u003cbr\u003ePB $10.00, 0-914742-81-7 CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\"Proses: On Poems and Poets\"\u003cbr\u003ePB $12.00, 1-55659-045-8 CUSA\u003cbr\u003e\"Yin\"\u003cbr\u003ePB\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Cool, Calm, \u0026 Collected: Poems, 1960-2000 | Carolyn Kizer | Hardcover | 9781556591464 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1774425","offer_id":49674930094232,"sku":"1774425","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81zW6oxZtJL.jpg?v=1786561713","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/cool-calm-collected-poems-1960-2000","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}