Carolyn Kizer: February 27, 1967

Click here to listen to this audio file

The Poetry Center presents Carolyn Kizer reading other poets' works as well as her own poems and Classical Chinese translations.

Originally Recorded By
APA
Location
San Francisco
Date
02/27/1967
Total Run Time
00:46:59
Contributor
Mark Linenthal
Rights
©© American Poetry Archives. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For all other uses please email poetry@sfsu.edu
Views
3914
Downloads
527
  • Mark Linenthal introduces Carolyn Kizer by listing her books and naming her as the founder of the Poetry Northwest (00:08)
  • Remarks on poets connected with San Francisco, Poetry Northwest, the Pacific Northwest in general (01:49)
  • "Jean Gabin as Ship" {Robert Peterson} (02:34)
  • "Bill as Bachelor, Bill as Groom" {Robert Peterson} (03:17)
  • Remarks on Kenneth Hanson as the Ezra Pound of her generation (04:49)
  • "Making the Scene" {Kenneth Hanson} (05:18)
  • "The Distance Anywhere" {Kenneth Hanson} (06:20)
  • Remarks on Robin Skelton's anthology Five Poets of the Pacific Northwest, regionalism, and William Stafford (07:42)
  • "At the Bomb Testing Site" {William Stafford} (08:47)
  • Remarks that she wanted to read a poem by Robert Duncan but could not find a copy of the book (09:27)
  • "To a Young Poet Who Fled" {John Logan} (10:01)
  • Remarks on the reason for writing "Where I've Been All My Life" (13:16)
  • "Where I've Been All My Life" (14:33)
  • Remarks on her new book based on classical Chinese models, some of them based on Po Chu-I (20:06)
  • "To Jan in Barmaria" (20:31)
  • "Singing Aloud" (21:42)
  • Remarks that the next poem is for Robert Creeley and is about friendship (23:35)
  • "Amusing Our Daughters" (23:41)
  • Remarks on "Hiding Our Love" based on the a 2nd century Chinese poem by Emperor Wu-Ti (26:00)
  • "Hiding Our Love" (26:13)
  • Remarks on "Summer Near the River" based on The Book of Songs (27:00)
  • "Summer Near the River" (27:16)
  • Remarks on Robert Peterson and "The Great Blue Heron" (28:59)
  • "The Great Blue Heron" (29:26)
  • Remarks on Oriental poetry, Taoism, Tu Fu, and her translation of Tu Fu's "A Visit in Winter" (31:48)
  • "A Visit in Winter" {Tu Fu} (33:31)
  • Remarks on "graphical poems," translating syllabic beats in Chinese poetry, biographical information on Tu Fu, and being a student of Theodore Roethke (36:22)
  • 100 Lines from Tu Fu (39:24)
  • Between sections, Kizer remarks on Tu Fu's continuing popularity in present day China (44:04)
  • Continues "100 Lines from Tu Fu" (44:26)

Related Items

Carolyn Kizer: December 7, 1959 William Stafford: November 29, 1967 Gary Snyder with Wang Ping: November 13, 2021 Theodore Roethke: February 25, 1954 Chao Tze-Chiang: July 9, 1958 Robert Creeley: July 16, 1959 Galway Kinnell: November 15, 1965 Kenneth Rexroth: July 13, 1955 Robert Lowell: May 10, 1966 James Tate: March 6, 1968 Julien Poirier and Matvei Yankelevich: March 6, 2014 Mark Linenthal: May 30, 1965 James Wright: April 26, 1965 "A regular Monday event: Poetry Readings" from the "1963 Franciscan" yearbook (pages 24-25) Marianne Moore: October 18, 1957 David Melnick: April 23, 1984 Louis Zukofsky: July 2, 1958 William Stafford: July 23, 1959 Tomas Tranströmer: March 4, 1974 Stefan Hyner: April 28, 2016