Carolyn Kizer

Carolyn Ashley Kizer ( born December 10, 1925 in Spokane, Washington) is an American poet. In 1985 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Life

Carolyn Kizer, was born as the daughter of the lawyer Benjamin H. Kizer and Mabel A. Kizer, a professor of biology.

After leaving school at Lewis and Clark High School, she moved for her Bachelor studies at the Sarah Lawrence College, where she sang Mythology studied with Joseph Campbell. Your master studies, she graduated from Columbia University in New York City and at the University of Washington.

Back in Washington, she married in 1948 Stimson Bullitt, who came from a wealthy and influential family from Seattle. They have three children and divorced in 1954.

In 1954, Carolyn Kizer took part in a workshop for creative writing, which was carried out by the poet Theodore Roethke. " Kizer had three small kids, a big house on North Capitol Hill, enough money to get by and more than enough talent and determination. And Although one of her poems had been published in The New Yorker When She Was 17, she remembers she did needed a nudge from Roethke to get serious " ( German: ". Kizer had three children, a large house on North Capitol Hill, enough to get money to make ends meet and more than enough talent and determination for it. spite of the fact that one of her poems in the New York Times was published when she was 17 years old, she knew she needed a push from Roethke to seriously start. " )

In the 1970s and 80s she held nationwide events as a poet -in-residence or lecturer at universities, including Columbia, Stanford, Princeton, San José State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She took part in world conferences and author was also a member of the Writers' workshops Iowa.

The topics of Kizers poems ranging from mythology and politics to feminism.

Kizer later married the architect and historian John M. Woodbridge. If they are not taught or wrote that she is leaving today between their homes in Sonoma (California ) and Paris.

Bibliography

Seal

  • Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems 1960-2000 Copper Canyon Press, 2001
  • Pro Femina: A Poem BkMk Press, 2000, ISBN 1886157308
  • Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 Copper Canyon Press, 1996
  • The Nearness of You Copper Canyon Press, 1986
  • Yin (1984 ), won the Pulitzer Prize
  • Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women Copper Canyon Press, 1984
  • Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems (1971 )
  • Knock Upon Silence (1965 )
  • The Ungrateful Garden (1961 )

Prose

  • Picking and Choosing: Prose on Prose (1995 )
  • Proses: Essays on Poets and Poetry Copper Canyon Press, 1993

Translations

  • Carrying Over: Translations from Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Hebrew and French - African Copper Canyon Press, 1986

Edited by Kizer

Awards

  • Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1985 )
  • Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize (1988 for The Nearness of You )
  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1985 )
  • Award of Honor of the San Francisco Arts Commission
  • Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards ( six times )
  • Pushcart Prize ( three times)
  • Frost Medal ( 1988)
  • John Masefield Memorial Award
  • Governor's Award for the best book of the year, State of Washington (1965, 1985)

About Kizer and their work

  • Rigsbee, David ( ed.): An Answering Music: On the Poetry of Carolyn Kizer Ford -Brown & Co. Publishers, 1990
  • Carolyn Kizer, Perspectives on her Life and Work CavanKerry Press, 2001
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