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Kizer, Carolyn, author.

Proses : on poems & poets / Carolyn Kizer.

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [1993]

©1993

194 pages ; 23 cm.

"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."--Jacket.

Writing re; writing series

Writing re: writing.

Kizer, Carolyn.

Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.

Poetics.

Poetry.

Poetry.

Includes bibliographical references.

The stories of my life -- The poet as poem: Emily Dickinson -- The muse that flew away: Louise Bogan -- Maynard Mack's Pope -- A poet's Pope -- The green man: John Clare -- A note on Robinson Jeffers -- Western space -- Poetic space: Richard Shelton -- The poetics of water: a sermon -- So big: an essay on size -- Gentlemen songsters -- Others call it god: Hayden Carruth -- Wrapped in silk: Marie Ponsot -- The other side of the story: Sylvia Plath -- Growing old alive: Kenneth O. Hanson and Han Yü -- The light of Hilda Morley -- An exultation of poets.

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