Books by Joanne Kyger and Complete Book Reviews

Some Life
Some Life
Joanne Kyger, Author Post Apollo Press $7 (24p) ISBN 978-0-942996-40-1
Loosely associated with the Beats and later with the San Francisco Renaissance, Kyger inhabits a singular verbal space as engaging and essential as it is offhand and self-questioning. Her latest continues to aim for a poetics that comes close as...
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On Time: Poems 2005–2014
On Time: Poems 2005–2014
Joanne Kyger. City Lights (Consortium, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (136p) ISBN 978-0-87286-680-5
Nearly a decade in the making, Kyger’s (About Now: Collected Poems) much-anticipated new collection bursts with spontaneity, wit, and a delightful swiftness akin to “the wheel/ of mind restless as five monkeys/ running in place.” Now 80, she writes...
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AS EVER: Selected Poems
AS EVER: Selected Poems
Joanne Kyger, Author, David Meltzer, Introduction by . Penguin $20 (336p) ISBN 978-0-14-200112-7
"Just a little bit/ does the magic" writes Kyger halfway into her belated, ecstatic debut on the national stage with a large house. Sharing, with poets such as Philip Whalen and David Meltzer, a love of William Carlos Williams and Zen...
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