Cool, Calm, and Collected (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carolyn Kizer
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Dictators, Suicide, Ghosts or apparitions, Women’s issues, Politicians, Bombs, Birds, Atomic bomb, Women’s rights, Animals, Spain or Spanish people, Fascism, Heads of state, Arms or weapons, Bats
Decades are the governing principle of Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems, 1960-2000, as Carolyn Kizer divides the book into periods of time rather than books of poetry. This format reveals a number of clear changes in subject, style, and approach over the years, although her wit and feeling are present from the earliest to her newest poems. She is a remarkable and very accessible poet and this large collection should win a wide audience.
Kizer’s poems are formal in their use of regular meter, often a loose iambic meter, and a few use rhyme; some poems are in a free verse...
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