Proses: On Poems and Poets (Writing Re: Writing) - Softcover

Kizer, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556590458 ISBN 13: 9781556590450

Publisher: Copper Canyon Press, 1993

Synopsis

Chosen as the inaugural volume of the Copper Canyon Press "Writing Re: Writing" Series--each annual volume to be a major collection of prose on poetry by a leading poet--Proses collects essays and reviews by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and feminist, Carolyn Kizer. "Nearly every page sparkles with Kizer's intelligence."--Writer's NW

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Review:

Clever, funny, a little gossipy, and always interesting, Carolyn Kizer's "proses" about poetry are a heck of a lot of fun to read. Marge Piercy? "The very model of a modern major feminist." Denise Levertov? "The next time she goes to jail, I'm going with her." Robert Hass? "A romantic of the breakfast table." Kizer's deep affection for her fellow poets shines through in these essays, and her story about Gary Snyder is deeply moving. The essays are also serious and insightful, and Kizer's writing is fresh and inviting. Maxine Kumin calls the book "graceful, tough, and rewarding."

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1556590458
• ISBN 13: 9781556590450
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208