Joanne Kyger

Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964

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Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964
Joanne Kyger
Manufacturer: North Atlantic Books
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ASIN: 1556433379
Release Date: 2000-09-15

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Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial niche in San Francisco's Beat poetry movement. Whether studying under Zen teacher Ruth Fuller Sakaki or meeting with the Dalai Lama (who at 27 "lounged on a velvet couch like a gawky adolescent in red robes"), her journals are witty, amusing, and intelligent, in this fascinating look at the art of poetry and portrait of the counterculture abroad.

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Sei Shonagon updated.......2003-07-17

This book reminds me of Sei Shonagon, but the cast of characters is often well-known Beat writers. Kyger was married to Beat saint Gary Snyder at the time, but she is iconoclastic in regards to presenting him here. The arc of the book is their love story -- beginning with a shy and rather impressed Kyger and ending with a rather loud and irreverent Kyger. Early on she worships Snyder, but then he knocks her down and splits her head open on a wood table when she refuses to do the dishes. He is surly throughout the book, and given to bad moods, and kicks her at least twice.

Kyger gets it all down.

Beat saint Allen Ginsberg grabs his food at the communal dining hour and shoves his face full without waiting for others to be served. Orlovsky is shoving drugs in his face every moment that he can.

This is a funny book that knocks out stereotypes left and right. In one or two sentences she undoes the career of Paul Blackburn, for instance. And all the while she is musing on the possibility of a female literature, and what it might consist of -- something for which she had no clear legacy in American but the Japanese writers of the Heian period such as Sei Shonagon appear to have given her the inspiration needed.

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Shaped by an effortless breath line, Joanne Kyger's poetry is gifted with exquisite sensory awareness, a landscape painter's eye, and friendly compassion. It conducts an intimate debate on the process of language, always with a wonderful sense of humor, sometimes self-deprecating, sometimes excoriating the bad behavior of miscreants and proponents of a false culture. This long-awaited collection spans a decade of daily life, death, seasons, bird migrations, journeys—and the who, what, where, even the why of conscious human puttering. An active presence in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene for forty years, Joanne Kyger was one of the few women involved with the Berkeley Renaissance, a constellation of writers around Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer, James Broughton, and Robin Blaser. One of the pioneers of American Zen, she remains a practicing Buddhist, and her poetry radiates the shapely art of a shapely mind.

"She's one of our hidden treasures--the poet who really links the Beats, the Spicer Circle, the Bolinas poets, the New York School, and the Language poets, and the only poet who can be said to do all of the above."—Ron Silliman

Patzcuaro: December 17, 1997 - January 26, 1998
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Poetry. Joanne Kyger, easily one of the more famous poets in post-Beat California writing, offers this new book of poems. Written in Patzcuaro, Mexico in partial homage to Pablo Neruda, this chapbook is exquisitely put out by Blue Millenium. "Let me tell you of my compatriots, my compadres,/ my companions in poetry..." ("The Beautiful Adjectives and Magnificent metaphors of Pablo Neruda").

Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head: The Angel Hair Anthology

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Angel Hair Sleeps with a Boy in My Head: The Angel Hair Anthology
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As Ever: Selected Poems
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ASIN: 0142001120
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This collection of Joanne Kyger's work reveals her as one of the major experimenters, hybridizers, and visionaries of poetry. Kyger is a poet of place, with a strong voice-delicate, graceful, and never wasteful; her poems explore themes of friendship, love, community, and morality and draw on Native American myth as well as Asian religion and philosophy. Kyger's love for poetry manifests itself in a grander scheme of consciousness-expansion and lesson, but always in the realm of the everyday. Edited with a foreword by Michael Rothenberg, and with an introduction by poet David Meltzer, this book is a marvelous overview of a wonderfully challenging and important poet.

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Just Space: Poems 1979-1989
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It's not a poem, no matter what the cover says

Up my coast
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It's not a poem, no matter what the cover says.......2000-06-12

Why do I despise this book? Bad marketing. Had it been marketed as a retelling of a Native American creation myth, hand-bound and illustrated and in general a gorgeous piece of the chapbook-maker's craft, I'd probably have liked it despite my general dislike of Kyger. Sure, the pacing is pedestrian and the language is unexceptional, but we need more retellings of various cultures' creation myths to draw on. (I'm serious about this, I can't get enough of them.) But was it marketed that way? Of course not. This... is a LONG POEM! Uh, sorry, no. It's not a poem, and in all honesty it's not all that long, either; I got through it in about half an hour. And while reading about Coyote and his propensity for flinging vulture feathers about is right up my alley, a good bit of remarketing is needed here. And a rewrite probably wouldn't hurt. "The people began to walk around and find things to eat/ For now they could see." Uh, yeah. Pass the salt, please.

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Japan and India Journals 1960-64
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Some Life
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Memory, solitude, and the passage of time, inhabit these lyrical lines filled with the precise ironiesss of a "spiritual life in the woods." These poems, written as an elegy after the recent death of a friend, resound with a deep attachment to nature and friendship.

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