Harping on
Subtitle: poems 1985-1995
By: Carolyn Kizer.
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Port Townsend, Wash
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Description: "Did you see someone cold-cock a blind nun? / Well, I did. Two helpful idiots / Steered her across the tarmac to her plane / And led her smack into the wing. / She deplaned with two black eyes & a crooked wimple, / Bruised proof that the distinction is not simple / Between ineptitude and evil."
Table of contents: title: The valley of the fallen; title: Ingathering; title: Election day, 1984; title: Gerda; title: Pearl; title: Reunion; title: An American beauty; title: On a line from Valèry; title: Suppressing the evidence; title: Fearful women; title: Halation; title: Mud soup; title: Parents' pantoum; title: Arthur's party; title: In hell with Virg and Dan; title: Lost in translation; title: Cultural evolution; title: Four translations (A present for tu fu, Maryam, What is true, Tirade for the next-to-last act); title: Medicine; title: Poem for your birthday; title: Marriage song; title: Index, a mountain; title: Song for Muriel; title: Twelve o'clock; title: Anniversaries : Claremont Avenue from 1945; title: Fin-de-siècle blues.