Poetry. Chapbook. "A first-wave feminist Ur-text..." --Publishers Weekly. "The publication of Carolyn Kizer's Pro Femina sequence in book form is an event that calls for champagne, essays, discussions, a prize or two: above all, celebration" --Marilyn Hacker.
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About the Author:
Carolyn Kizer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College. She co-founded Poetry Northwest; served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts; was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets; and has been a poet-in- residence at Columbia, Stanford, and Princeton. Kizer lives in Sonoma, California.
Review:
Carolyn Kizer, woman and poet, IS one of our major literary philosophers. -- Marilyn Hacker
Elegant teacher and metrical matriarch, Kizer can argue with anyone in history on our behalf. -- Sandra McPherson
Pro Femina is a poem that every woman whose spirit has been damaged by deferring to the male should read. -- Louis Simpson
Pro Femina: Five. The Erotic Philosophers
Pro Femina: Four. Fanny
Pro Femina: One
Pro Femina: Three
Pro Femina: Two
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ
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