Carolyn Kizer: December 7, 1959

Originally Recorded By
The Poetry Center
Location
San Francisco
Date
12/07/1959
Total Run Time
00:20:39
Contributor
Ruth Witt-Diamant
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  • Introduction of Carolyn Kizer [and Harold Witt] by Ruth Witt-Diamant (00:02)
  • Remarks on content of poems (01:05)
  • "The Intruder" (01:46)
  • Remarks on a mouse drawing by a friend (04:10)
  • "A Widow in Wintertime" (5:02)
  • Remarks on the modern poet's lack of knowledge (06:54)
  • "Plaint of a Poet in an Ignorant Age" (07:35)
  • Remarks on poems inspired by childhood and epigraph from Smart (09:38)
  • "The Worms" (09:52)
  • Comments on "By the Riverside" (11:47)
  • "By the Riverside" (11:58)
  • "What Was in a Name" (14:36)
  • "Love Song" (16:14)
  • "The Great Blue Heron" (18:07)

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