Joanne Kyger

Broschiertes Buch

On Time: Poems 2005-2014

Beschreibung

A major new collection from one of the most significant women poets of the SF Renaissance.

Autor

One of the major poets of the SF Renaissance, Joanne Kyger was born in 1934 in Vallejo, CA. After studying at UC Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957, where she became a member of the circle of poets around Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. In 1960, she joined Gary Snyder in Japan. They then traveled to India where, along with Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky, they met the Dalai Lama. She returned to California in 1964 and published her first book, The Tapestry and the Web, in 1965. In 1969, she settled in Bolinas, where she continues to reside today. She has published over 30 books of poetry and prose, including The Japan and India Journals: 1960-1964 (2015), On Time: Poems 2005-2014 (2015), As Ever: Selected Poems  (2002), and About Now: Collected Poems (2007), which won the 2008 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. She died in 2017 in Bolinas, CA.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 126
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 175mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 212g
• ISBN-13: 9780872866805
• ISBN-10: 0872866807
• Artikelnr.: 41452972