<DIV><P>Selected as a "Best Book of the Year" by the <I>Los Angeles Times </I>and <I>Booklist </I>magazine, and winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award, <I>Cool, Calm, and Collected </I>is a tour de force from one of the nation&rsquo;s premier poets. For four decades, Carolyn Kizer has been one of the most influential, controversial, and recognizable figures in American poetry. A feminist practically before the term existed, she has never been afraid to say what is on her mind, writing poems infused with sexual politics, social awareness, and literary irreverence.</P> <P><I>Cool, Calm, and Collected </I>was reprinted four times in cloth and became one of Copper Canyon Press&rsquo;s bestselling titles. It features new poems, work from all of Kizer&rsquo;s previous volumes, translations "from a dizzying number of poets" (<I>New York Times</I>), and several prose pieces, including "Pakistan Journal" and "My Good Father."</P> <P><I>. . . We women,<BR> Outside, breathing dust, are still the Other. <BR> The evening sun goes down; time to fix dinner. <BR> "You women have no major phiolosophers." We know. <BR> But we remain philosophic, and say with the Saint, <BR> "Let me enter my chamber and sing my songs of love." <BR> </I>&mdash;from "Pro Femina"</P> <P>"We cannot do without Kizer and never could&mdash;here are four decades of compelling reasons why."&mdash;<I>Los Angeles Times</I></P> <P>"Carolyn Kizer is a national treasure."&mdash;<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I></P> <P>"The book will appeal to poetry lovers and activists of all stripes."&mdash;<I>Publishers Weekly</I></P> <P>"No library should be without this collection."&mdash;<I>Booklist </I>(starred review)</P> <P><B>Carolyn Kizer</B>, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, was educated at Sarah Lawrence College. She co-founded Poetry Northwest; served as the first director of the Literature Program at the National Endowment for the Arts; was a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets; and has been a poet-in-residence at Columbia, Stanford, and Princeton. Kizer lives in Sonoma, California.</P></DIV>