Foreword / Hayden Carruth -- Introduction / David Rigsbee -- An answering music : on the poetry of Carolyn Kizer / David Rigsbee -- Hilarity and poetry / John Montague -- Carolyn Kizer's 'The great blue heron' / Laura Jensen -- Mother wit : humor in Carolyn Kizer's poetry / Fred Chappell -- Kizer's politics : poetry and feminism / Ruth Salvaggio -- [The ungrateful garden] -- The intruder -- The death of a public servant -- Hera, hung from the sky -- A Muse of water -- The great blue heron -- The ungrateful garden -- [Knock upon silence] -- Singing aloud -- Hiding our love -- Summer near the river -- The skein -- [Yin : new poems] -- Semele recycled -- Afternoon happiness -- Exodus -- [Mermaids in the basement] -- Pro Femina -- [The nearness of you] -- Thrall -- Voyager -- Final meeting -- [Not their history but our myth : an interview with Carolyn Kizer / David Rigsbee and Steven Ford Brown -- Mimesis, mythologies, and speculation : Carolyn Kizer's feminist poetics / Mary Ellis Gibson -- Carolyn Kizer and her Chinese imitations / Dominic Cheung -- Carolyn Kizer : poet of compassion / Bernetta Quinn -- Re/membering the goddess : Carolyn Kizer and the poetics of generosity / Judith Emlyn Johnson -- Postscript : Carolyn Kizer, superkid / Carol Muske.
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