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Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 Paperback – September 1, 2002

by Carolyn Kizer (Author)
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Selected as a "Best Book of the Year" by the Los Angeles Times and Booklist magazine, and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, Cool, Calm, and Collected is 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 Collected was 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.

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    September 1, 2002
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    1556591810
  7. ISBN-13
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Copper Canyon Press (September 1, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 520 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1556591810
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1556591815
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.54 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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j chan
5.0 out of 5 stars Skeptical genius
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Not a point of view or voice for everyone; however her skill as a poet, as a composer of verse, is never in question.
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Andrea Penn
5.0 out of 5 stars Major Compilation of Carolyn Kizer's Work
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This collection of Kizer's carefully crafted, elegant work immediately found a place on my shelf. Every time I open it I find something new (to me) and arresting. Her poetry holds up over time; it matters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My son loves it
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5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilled to get it
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2016
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Big fat lovely treasury of Kizer's poetry. Yum.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Brentley
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool, Calm Collection!
Reviewed in the United States on January 8, 2001
Carolyn Kizer has done the world of poetry a favor by issuing another stellar collection of poems for sheer entertainment, soul-pondering, reflection, escape, psyche-pleasure and engagement with the joys of the music of the written word. Her finest piece to date is a villanelle, a poignant commentary on the Gulf War of several years ago. While not included in this collection, it bears reciting here to get an idea of the value of Carolyn's verse:(On a Line from Valery) The whole green sky is dying. the last tree flares/ With a great burst of supernatural rose/ Under a canopy of poisonous airs.
Could we imagine our return to prayers/ To end in time before time's final throes,/ The green sky dying as the last tree flares?
But we were young in judgment, gray in hairs/ Who could make peace; but it was war we chose,/ To spread its canopy of poisoning airs.
Not all our children's pleas and women's stares/ Could steer us from this hell. And now God knows/ His whole green sky is dying as it flares.
Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares./ This dreadful century staggers to its close/ And the sky dies for us, its poisoned heirs.
All rain was dust. Its granules were our cares./ Throats burst as everywhere winter arose/ To kill the whole green sky. The last tree bears/ Within its canopy ripe poisoned pears.
Enjoy this newest work of art by as talented a poet as they come.
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