{"product_id":"cool-calm-collected-poems-1960-2000","title":"Cool Calm \u0026 Collected Poems 1960-2000","description":"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.\nFor 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.\nCool, 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.\nfrom \"Pro Femina\"\nFrom Sappho to myself, consider the fate of women.\nHow unwomanly to discuss it! Like a noose or an albatross necktie\nThe clinical sobriquet hangs us: cod-piece coveters.\nNever mind these epithets; I myself have collected some honeys.\nJuvenal set us apart in denouncing our vices\nWhich had grown, in part, from having been set apart:\nWomen abused their spouses, cuckolded them, even plotted\nTo poison them. Sensing, behind the violence of his manner—\n\"Think I’m crazy or drunk?\"—his emotional stake in us,\nAs we forgive Strindberg and Nietzsche, we forgive all those\nWho cannot forget us. We are hyenas. Yes, we admit it…\nCarolyn 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.\nAlso available by Carolyn Kizer\nHarping On\nPB $12.00, 1-55659-115-2 • CUSA\nHC y $22.00, 1-55659-114-4 • CUSA\nMermaids in the Basement\nPB $10.00, 0-914742-81-7 • CUSA\nProses: On Poems and Poets\nPB $12.00, 1-55659-045-8 • CUSA\nYin\nPB\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1556591462\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1556591462.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Kizer, Carolyn\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43482925563965,"sku":"BVV.1556591462.VG","price":14.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1556591462-0.jpg?v=1787086754","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/cool-calm-collected-poems-1960-2000","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}