Article: Passwords at the boundary: Carolyn Kizer's poetry.

At the outset, a disclaimer (or perhaps a claimer): my acquaintance with Carolyn Kizer began in the fall of 1965, when, in a car George Garrett had rented, I was her chauffeur through part of a reading tour in Virginia and North Carolina. Astonishment, hilarity, profound sympathy, minor legendry, and abiding friendship have been among the results of that journey. So there is a respectable school of criticism which would hold that my opinions of Kizer's work, however thoroughly acquired, are not for publication. Friendship, however, is a primary stimulus and a central theme in Kizer's poems, and it moves me to take another long close look at them.

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