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Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kizer, Carolyn
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Women authors.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend : Copper Canyon Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- "Did you see someone cold-cock a blind nun? / Well, I did. Two helpful idiots / Steered her across the tarmac to her plane / And led her smack into the wing. / She deplaned with two black eyes & a crooked wimple, / Bruised proof that the distinction is not simple / Between ineptitude and evil.".
- Contents:
- The valley of the fallen
- Ingathering
- Election day, 1984
- Gerda
- Pearl
- Reunion
- An American beauty
- On a line from Valéry
- Suppressing the evidence
- Fearful women
- Halation
- Mud soup
- Parents' pantoum
- Arthur's party
- In hell with Virg and Dan
- Lost in translation
- Cultural evolution
- Four translations (A present for tu fu, Maryam, What is true, Tirade for the next-to-last act)
- Medicine
- Poem for your birthday
- Marriage song
- Index, a mountain
- Song for Muriel
- Twelve o'clock
- Anniversaries : Claremont Avenue from 1945
- Fin-de-siècle blues.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
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