Nearness Of You - Hardcover

Afternoon Happiness
Amusing Our Daughters
Antique Father
By The Riverside
Complex Autumnal
Dangerous Games
The Death Of A Public Servant
Epithalamion
Final Meeting
From An Artist's House
The Gift
The Glass
The Good Author
Heart's Limbo
Horseback
The Light
Linked Verses
Love Song
Lovemusic
On A Line From Sophocles
One To Nothing
The Patient Lovers
Plaint Of The Poet In An Ignorant Age
A Poet's Household
Promising Author
Reading Your Poems In Your House While You Are Away
Season Of Lovers And Assassins
Streets Of Pearl And Gold
Thrall
To A Visiting Poet In A College Dormitory
To An Unknown Poet
Two Poets By The Lake
Tying One On In Vienna
The Ungrateful Garden
Voyager
The Way We Write Letters
What The Bones Know
What Was In A Name
Winter Song
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

A companion volume to Kizer's Mermaids in the Basement: poems for women ( LJ 10/1/84), a Pulitzer Prize-winner in 1985, this selection of "poems for men" includes several poems from early, out-of-print volumes. Unfortunately, most poems aren't dated, and Kizer's style seems to have changed little over the years. The poems contain an abundance of literary allusions used to avoid direct personal statement; even in technically correct poems for other writers, the connections seem superficial. A few exceptions, such as "Winter Song" and some of the poems about her father, prove Kizer capable of expressing emotion directly if she chooses; one wishes there were more poems of this sort. The book makes one realize how much women's poetry has evolved in the past 15 years. Rochelle Ratner, formerly Poetry Editor "Soho Weekly News," New York
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