In a Dark Time … The Eye Begins to See

Carolyn Kizer’s poems in the section entitled “The Seventies� of Calm, Cool, and Collected often seem anything but calm and cool. It appears to have been a rather tumultuous time for her, as it was for many of us who grew up then. Personally, I was rather surprised, and pleased once I’d read it, to find [...]

I was hard pressed to pick a favorite poem from “The Eighties� section of Kizer’s collected works for here she turns from a sometimes strident declaration of women’s rights to a quieter understanding of herself and her role in creating and, ultimately, freeing herself, from the bonds that would bind all of us to our [...]