SONOMA, Calif. (AP) β Carolyn Kizer, a feminist Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who spoke her political mind even at age 7, has died in Somona from the effects of dementia, her literary executor said. She was 89.
Kizer, who won her Pulitzer in 1985 for a collection of work called “Yin” after the female principle in Chinese cosmology, died Thursday at a nursing home, executor David Rigsbee told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/1r3M1TX).
Born in Spokane, Washington, Kizer was 7 and attending a dinner party held by her parents when asked about political parties. She told guests “Oh, we veer with the wind.”
In an essay later, she said her father was angry: “I have suppressed what he said, but I know that I withered like a violet in an ice storm.”
