Proses by Carolyn Kizer
Proses has been selected as the inaugural volume in the Copper Canyon Press Writing Re: Writing series, each annual volume to be a major collection of essays on poetry by a leading poet. In these essays and reviews, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet assays the work of many contemporary poets including Hayden Carruth, Denise Levertov, James Merrill, Louise Bogan, Robert Creeley, Marge Piercy, John Berryman and others. She offers the first major American assessment of the English poet John Clare, and discusses the influence of Alexander Pope on her own poetry. She also contributes a major autobiographical essay. If the subjects and occasions of her prose on poets and poetry are eclectic, they onetheless provide a sweeping insight into the depth of her passion, intelligence and imagination.
CAROLYN KIZER was born in Spokane, Washington, where her parents were leading figures in the social and cultural life of the city. Her education included attendance at Lewis & Clark High School in Spokane, Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University (where she was a Fellow of the Chinese Government in Comparative Literatures), and the University of Washington, where she was founding editor of Poetry Northwest (1959-65). In 1964-65 she was Specialist in Literature for the U.S. State Department in Pakistan, and in 1966 she became the first Director of Literary Programs for the newly created National Endowment for the Arts. She resigned the post in 1970, when the Chairman of the N.E.A., Roger L. Stevens, was fired by President Richard Nixon. She was a Consultant to the N.E.A. for the following year. Throughout the '70s and '80s, she held appointments as distinguished poet-in-residence, lecturer at major universities throughout the nation, and has been a visiting writer at literary conferences and events throughout the U.S., as well as in Dublin, Ireland, and Paris, France. Her many awards for her poetry include The Pulitzer Prize, 1985; the Frost Medal and Masefield Prize of the Poetry Society of America; The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, 1985; The Award of Honor of the San Francisco Arts Commission; The Borestone Award (six times); the Pushcart Prize (three times); The Theodore Roethke Poetry Prize, 1988; The Governor's Award for best book of the year, State of Washington, 1965, 1985; Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Whitman College, 1988; and Chancellor, American Academy of Poetry, 1995. In addition to Picking & Choosing, she has published six collections of poems, a book of translations, and a volume of essays on verse. She is married to the distinguished architect-historian, John Marshall Woodbridge. When she is not teaching and lecturing, she divides her time between their home in Sonoma, California, and their apartment in Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781556590450 |
| ISBN 10 | 1556590458 |
| Title | Proses |
| Author | Carolyn Kizer |
| Series | Writing Re: Writing |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Copper Canyon Press,U.S. |
| Year published | 1993-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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