"Riveting reading" -- The Seattle Times

"This book celebrates a remarkable women, a witty, generous, lyrical, philosophical poet, often angry, never resigned…Carolyn’s mind has the broad range of a predator [and] the vocabulary of a lexicographer . . . from the "Introduction" by Maxine Kumin

Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life & Work is a collection of critical prose, interviews, and poetry that explores and appreciates Carolyn Kizer’s contributions to the art of poetry over the past fifty years. In this volume, essays on such topics as Kizer’s feminist politics, the influence of Chinese poetry in her work and her teaching philosophy and methods are juxtaposed with reviews of her poetry and memoir portraits by close friends.  —From the publisher, Cavankerry Press

Contributors

Agha Shahid Ali

Michelle Boisseau

Hayden Carruth

Fred Chappell

Kelly Cherry

Dominic Cheung

Lucille Clifton

Alfred Corn

Robert Creeley

Terry Ehret

Annie Finch

Jack Foley

William Holland

Judith Johnson

Maxine Kumin

Carol Muske

Robert Phillips

Marie Ponsot

Margaret Rabb

C. L. Rawlins

Ruth Salvaggio

Terry Stokes

Henry Taylor

Barbara Thompson

Kim Vaeth

Jackson Wheeler

Copyright©2006 Annie Finch