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| Picking and Choosing: Essays on Prose |
| by Carolyn Kizer |
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| From the winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize. |
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Nonfiction / Essays
184 Pages
ISBN: 0-910055-25-4
Paper: $25.00 |
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The centerpiece of this volume is a two-part essay on Japanese fiction. It is a profound consideration of Donald Keene's great gift to Western readers: his many surveys, anthologies, critiques, appreciations, and translations from Japanese, which have given us an understanding of the people and culture of Japan which we otherwise, quite simply, would not have. Kizer's work brings to the attention of American readers her spiritual companions- the writers of China, Pakistan, Bulgaria, and other distant territories.
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| Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, where her parents were leading figures in the social and cultural life of the city. Her education included attendance at Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane, Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University where she was a Fellow of the Chinese Government in Comparative Literature, and the University of Washington, where she was founding editor of Poetry Northwest (1959-65). |
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| Praise for Picking and Choosing |
"The brilliant and various essays and reviews of Picking and Choosing offer us the same qualities that have made Carolyn Kizer one of our finest writers (in prose as well as poetry): a graceful style and an inimitable voice; intellectual rigor and integrity; wit and compassion and an elegant, almost athletic, sense of control. Picking and Choosing is a genuine contribution to contemporary letters."
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—George Garrett.......... |
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| "It's true. Carolyn Kizer hung the moon. Hung it right over these wry, feisty reviews, the joyful reclamation of children's poetry, the wisest and most tonic graduation speech ever, over a fine and elegiac conversation about Theodore Roethke. It's all pure gold, bathed in vintage Kizer moonshine: that intoxicating, insightful voice full of sass and scintillation." |
—Carol Muske.......... |
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