Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life & Work

Critical essays about the poet and her work, interviews with Kizer, and poems written in her honor. Kizer's gifts are acknowledged in this book: her humor, her mythological scope, political awareness, satirical wit, feminism, craft, lyricism, her role in shaping literary institutions and her charisma. Carolyn Kizer is a celebration of the poetry itself, of the enduring work that places Kizer in the pantheon of living American poets.