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Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995.

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Twentieth-Century American Poetry Available online

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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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