cuda-natury: Joanne Kyger

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Joanne Kyger (November 19, 1934 – March 22, 2017) was an American poet. The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, Kyger was associated with the poets of the San Francisco Renaissance, the Beat Generation, Black Mountain, and the New York School. Although Kyger is often characterized as a prominent female Beat poet in the predominately male inner circle of Beat Generation writers, she never considered herself as belonging to the Beat movement. Nor did she formally identify with any other movement; her work invokes various schools of poetry without belonging to any of them. In Reconstructing the Beats, Amy L. Friedman calls Kyger "an important link between several major axes of America…

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Joanne Kyger and the Narrative of Every Day. <p>[para. 1]: "The force of the past frequently gets morphed to our uses of it. How difficult it is to see what took place as event, or what continues in words to inhabit the force of actual conditions. Fortunately, the very nature of Joanne Kyger’s work, tracking time as it does through many shifting perspectives, demands intimate attention and requires that it be observed according to its own terms. While her poetry touches on several mid-century movements of writing that include the Spicer Circle, the San Francisco Renaissance, The Beats, and Black Mountain traditions, her work remains exemplary for an approach to narrative practiced with enth…

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Joanne Kyger and the Narrative of Every Day. <p>[para. 1]: "The force of the past frequently gets morphed to our uses of it. How difficult it is to see what took place as event, or what continues in words to inhabit the force of actual conditions. Fortunately, the very nature of Joanne Kyger’s work, tracking time as it does through many shifting perspectives, demands intimate attention and requires that it be observed according to its own terms. While her poetry touches on several mid-century movements of writing that include the Spicer Circle, the San Francisco Renaissance, The Beats, and Black Mountain traditions, her work remains exemplary for an approach to narrative practiced with enth…

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Alice Notley on Joanne Kyger. Jane Falk’s interview with Alice Notley presents a personal view of Kyger from the poets’ first meeting in Bolinas in 1969 to their relationship over the years, addressing her estimation of Kyger’s position in the poetry pantheon and their shared lineage. Notley notes the importance of Kyger’s voice and the vocally sculpted nature of her poetry, points to her uniqueness as a poet, and discusses their mutual connection with figures such as Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, William Carlos Williams, and Ted Berrigan. The interview serves as a bookend to Notley’s masterful essay on Kyger, “Joanne Kyger’s Poetry,” in her collection Coming After: Essays on Poetry .

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Afterword. Joanne Kyger. John Whalen-Bridge offers responses to the essays included in the volume as well as his own views of Joanne Kyger as a poet in place and time. Among other topics, he discusses her response to the lack of recognition her work received, her relation to American Emersonian values, and her life-long adherence to individual awareness and journal writing. Situating Kyger at the intersection of ecology and Buddhism, Whalen-Bridge describes her as an outrider/outsider, a stance manifested in her resolute poetic independence and in the understated, deeply honest humor that characterizes her work. Viewing the essays as starting points for new considerations of Kyger’s canon,…

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Energy on the Page: Joanne Kyger in conversation with Dale Smith. <p>[para. 1]: "The following interview took place at Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich's home in Bolinas, California, on May 4, 1997. I arrived with Michael Price, Duncan McNaughton and an ancient Radio Shack tape recorder. We sat in Joanne's backyard. It was one of those perfect, cloudless NoCal days. Somehow, through a kind of rambling conversation kicked off by my novitious questions, the following words cohered."</p>

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Energy on the Page: Joanne Kyger in conversation with Dale Smith. <p>[para. 1]: "The following interview took place at Joanne Kyger and Donald Guravich's home in Bolinas, California, on May 4, 1997. I arrived with Michael Price, Duncan McNaughton and an ancient Radio Shack tape recorder. We sat in Joanne's backyard. It was one of those perfect, cloudless NoCal days. Somehow, through a kind of rambling conversation kicked off by my novitious questions, the following words cohered."</p>

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Joanne Kyger at Naropa University. Andrew Schelling’s essay is a memoir as much as a critical analysis, presenting Kyger at Naropa from the 1970s to her final year there, 2015. Schelling presents her archived self through his memories, the Naropa tapes, her poems written from the campus, and her reading and writing inspired by her connections to Naropa and its outpost Casa Werma, in Pátzcuaro, Mexico. The essay also addresses her relationship with Allen Ginsberg, one of Naropa’s founders. Schelling supplements his unique perspective on Kyger and Naropa (based on his longtime experience as a poet affiliated with this Buddhist university) with his notes on Kyger’s presentation on journaling f…

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Artists of a Floating World. Mark Gonnerman’s essay presents an intersection between Joanne Kyger, Gary Snyder, and Allen Ginsberg via a photograph Ginsberg took of the couple and a Buddhist priest on a boat at the Sea of Japan in 1963. Gonnerman brings the three together for the photograph’s moment in time (what Ginsberg considers a sacramental union) and then disperses them at the end of his essay to their respective singular lives as Snyder and Kyger break up. Snyder continues Zen study in Japan, Kyger returns to California and subsequently moves to Bolinas, and Ginsberg takes up his place as major figure in the Beat Movement in the States. The essay is about personal relationships and m…