The Ungrateful Garden

by Kizer, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780887482762
• ISBN10: 0887482767
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

Summary

A reissuing of The Ungrateful Garden, poetry by Carolyn Kizer.

Author Biography

Carolyn Kizer has been a teacher of creative writing at several universities including North Carolina, Columbia, Cincinnati, Iowa, Stanford, Arizona, and Princeton.

Table of Contents

The Ungrateful Garden	p. 13
The Intruder	p. 14
The Worms	p. 15
By the Riverside	p. 17
A Widow in Wintertime	p. 19
One to Nothing	p. 20
The Death of a Public Servant	p. 22
Complex Autumnal	p. 24
What Was in a Name	p. 26
Through a Glass Eye, Lightly	p. 27
The Suburbans	p. 29
Not Writing Poems About Children	p. 32
Hera, Hung from the Sky	p. 37
Epithalamion	p. 39
Persephone Pauses	p. 41
The Flower	p. 43
Columns and Caryatids	p. 46
The Damnation	p. 48
The Old Gods	p. 50
The Apostate	p. 53
Tying One on in Vienna	p. 56
A Muse of Water	p. 61
Afterthoughts of Donna Elvira	p. 64
Plaint of the Poet in an Ignorant Age	p. 65
Birthday Poem for a Childless Man	p. 67
The Great Blue Heron	p. 69
Lovemusic	p. 71
The Patient Lovers	p. 72
Love Song	p. 73
A Poet's Household	p. 74
From an Artist's House	p. 75
Linked Verses	p. 76
On a Line from Julian	p. 77
What the Bones Know	p. 78
To a Visiting Poet	p. 79
On Rising from the Dead	p. 80
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