Kizer, Carolyn.

Harping on : poems 1985-1995 / by Carolyn Kizer. - Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press, c1996. - ix, 70 p. ; 24 cm.

The valley of the fallen -- Ingathering -- Election day, 1984 -- Gerda -- Pearl -- Reunion -- An American beauty -- Line from Valery -- Suppressing the evidence -- Fearful women -- Halation -- Mud soup -- Parents' pantoum -- Arthur's party -- In hell with Virg and Dan -- Lost in translation -- Cultural evolution -- Four translations (A present for tu fu, Maryam, What is true, Tirade for the next-to-last act) -- Medicine -- Poem for your birthday -- Marriage song -- Index, a mountain -- Song for Muriel -- Twelve o'clock -- Anniversaries : Claremont Avenue from 1945 -- Fin-de-siecle blues.

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