Carolyn Kizer
Carolyn Ashley Kizer (born December 10, 1925 in Spokane , Washington , † October 9, 2014 in Sonoma , California ) was an American poet . She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.
Life
Carolyn Kizer was born in 1925 to lawyer Benjamin H. Kizer and Mabel A. Kizer, professor of biology.
After graduating from Lewis and Clark High School , she moved to Sarah Lawrence College for her bachelor's degree , where she a. a. Studied mythology with Joseph Campbell . She completed her masters at Columbia University in New York City and at the University of Washington .
In 1948 she married Stimson Bullitt, who came from a wealthy and influential Seattle family. They had three children; In 1954 they got divorced.
In 1954, Carolyn Kizer attended a creative writing workshop conducted by the poet Theodore Roethke. "Kizer had three small kids, a big house on North Capitol Hill, enough money to get by and more than enough talent and determination. And although one of her poems had been published in The New Yorker when she was 17, she remembers that she needed a nudge from Roethke to get serious. ”(German:“ Kizer had three children, a big house on North Capitol Hill, enough Money to make ends meet and more than enough talent and determination to do it.Despite the fact that one of her poems was published in The New Yorker when she was 17, she knew she was offending Roethke needed to start seriously. ")
During the 1970s and 80s, she held national poet-in-residence and lecturer events at universities including Columbia , Stanford , Princeton , San Jose State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . She took part in author conferences around the world and was also a member of the Iowas writers' workshop.
The subjects of Kizer's poems range from mythology and politics to feminism .
Kizer later married the architect and historian John M. Woodbridge. When she was not teaching or writing, she last lived alternatively in her apartments in Paris and in Sonoma, California, where she died in October 2014 at the age of 88 of complications from dementia .
bibliography
poetry
- Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems 1960-2000 Copper Canyon Press, 2001
- Pro Femina: A Poem BkMk Press, 2000, ISBN 1-886157-30-8
- Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 Copper Canyon Press, 1996
- The Nearness of You Copper Canyon Press, 1986
- Yin (1984), won the Pulitzer Prize
- Mermaids in the Basement: Poems for Women Copper Canyon Press, 1984
- Midnight Was My Cry: New and Selected Poems (1971)
- Knock Upon Silence (1965)
- The Ungrateful Garden (1961)
prose
- Picking and Choosing: Prose on Prose (1995)
- Proses: Essays on Poets and Poetry Copper Canyon Press, 1993
Translations
- Carrying Over: Translations from Chinese, Urdu, Macedonian, Hebrew and French-African Copper Canyon Press, 1986
Published by Kizer
- 100 Great Poems by Women (1995)
- The Essential Clare (1992)
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Sealing (1985)
- Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize (1988 for The Nearness of You )
- American Academy of Arts and Letters award (1985)
- Award of Honor of the San Francisco Arts Commission
- Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards (six times)
- Pushcart Prize (three times)
- Frost Medal (1988)
- John Masefield Memorial Award
- Governor's Award for the best book of the year, State of Washington (1965, 1985)
About Kizer and their work
- Rigsbee, David (Ed.): An Answering Music: On the Poetry of Carolyn Kizer Ford-Brown & Co. Publishers, 1990
- Carolyn Kizer, Perspectives on her Life and Work CavanKerry Press, 2001
Web links
- Literature by and about Carolyn Kizer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Carolyn Kizer short biography at the Academy of American Poets (English)
- The Art of Poetry 81 , Barbara Thompson Davis interviews Carolyn Kizer, in: The Paris Review 154, Spring 2000
- Biographical article on Kizer "Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest"
- Death message (English)
Poems online
Review
- The Nearness of You New York Times Review, March 22, 1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ Note: In obituaries of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times , 1924 is given as the year of birth, see Margalit Fox: Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer-Winning Poet, Dies at 89. In: The New York Times of October 10, 2014 (English, accessed October 11, 2014) and Steve Chawkins: Carolyn Kizer dies at 89; Pulitzer winner's poems reflected her feminism. In: Los Angeles Times of October 13, 2014 (accessed October 14, 2014).
- ^ Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 1985
- ^ [1] Carolyn Kizer in the Notable Names Database
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zahler, Richard, article from the Seattle Times , 1985, University of Washington English Department, Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Readings: Carolyn Kizer Interview (1985)
- ↑ [2] accessed February 9, 2012
- ↑ Pro Femina: A Poem BkMk Press, 2000, ISBN 1-886157-30-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kizer, Carolyn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kizer, Carolyn Ashley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 10, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Spokane , Washington |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 9, 2014 |
| Place of death | Sonoma , California |