Carolyn Kizer
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"Carolyn Ashley Kizer" was an American poet of the Pacific Northwest whose works reflect her feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985.

According to an article at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, "Kizer reach[ed] into mythology in poems like “[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/241956 Semele Recycled]”; into politics, into feminism, especially in her series of poems called “Pro Femina”; into science, the natural world, music, and translations and commentaries on Japanese and Chinese literatures".

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But we were young in judgement, old in years.

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Happiness is a Chinese meal; sorrow is a nourishment forever.

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