Cool Calm and Collected, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Selected as a Best Book of the Year\" by theLos Angeles TimesandBooklistmagazine, and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, Cool, Calm, and Collectedis a tour de force from one of the nation's premier poets. For four decades, Carolyn Kizer has been one of the most influential, controversial, and recognizable figures in American poetry. A feminist practically before the term existed, she has never been afraid to say what is on her mind, writing poems infused with sexual politics, social awareness, and literary irreverence. Cool, Calm, and Collectedwas reprinted four times in cloth and became one of Copper Canyon Press's bestselling titles. It features new poems, work from all of Kizer's previous volumes, translations \"from a dizzying number of poets\" (New York Times), and several prose pieces, including \"Pakistan Journal\" and \"My Good Father.\". . . We women, Outside, breathing dust, are still the Other. The evening sun goes down; time to fix dinner. \"You women have no major phiolosophers.\" We know. But we remain philosophic, and say with the Saint, \"Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love.\"-from \"Pro Femina\"\"We cannot do without Kizer and never could-here are four decades of compelling reasons why.\"-Los Angeles Times\"Carolyn Kizer is a national treasure.\"-San Francisco Chronicle\"The book will appeal to poetry lovers and activists of all stripes.\"-Publishers Weekly\"No library should be without this collection.\"-Booklist(starred review)Carolyn Kizer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College. She co-founded Poetry Northwest; served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts; was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets; and has been a poet-in-residence at Columbia, Stanford, and Princeton. Kizer lives in Sonoma, California. \""Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington on December 10, 1924. At 17, she had a poem, When You Are Distant, published in The New Yorker. She received a bachelor's degree from Sarah Lawrence College in 1945 and afterward did graduate work in Chinese at Columbia University. In 1959, she helped found the journal Poetry Northwest and served as its editor until 1965. Her first collection of poetry, The Ungrateful Garden, was published in 1961. Her other collections include Knock Upon Silence and Harping On. Her best known work was the five-part cycle Pro Femina. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for her collection Yin and a Poetry Society of America Frost Medal in 1988. A skilled translator, she translated works from Urdu, Macedonian, Yiddish, and Chinese, including the Tang poet Tu Fu and the a modern woman poet Shu Ting. Kizer died from complications of dementia on October 9, 2014 at the age of 89. | Cool Calm and Collected, Paperback | Indigo Chapters