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31 mars 2020 · Kay Ryan’s new book, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose, is a pleasing size: 200 or so pages, small enough to balance in your hand.The titles of the essays—“A Consideration of Poetry,” “I Go to AWP,” “Inedible Melons,” “To Be Miniature Is to Be Swallowed by a Miniature Whale” (taken from one of Ryan’s poems, “This Life”)—convey that same strange, funny, compelling ...
Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan’s probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art.. A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets—including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson—Synthesizing Gravity ...
At 29, Kay Ryan undertook a 4,000 mile cross-country bicycle trip, to give herself time to consider whether to devote herself to poetry as a vocation. As she pedalled through Colorado, the repetitive, rhythmic exercise gave her a sense of oneness with her surroundings, as if “I could pass through the pine trees and they through me.”
Kay Ryan, who was named the sixteenth poet laureate of the United States in July, lives in Fairfax, California, where for more than thirty years she has taught remedial English part-time at the College of Marin at Kentfield.
Kay Ryan was born in 1945 in San Jose, California, and grew up in the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. Ryan’s honors include a MacArthur Genius Grant, a National Humanities Medal, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and a Ruth Lilly Poetry ...
17 juil. 2008 · An article on Thursday about Kay Ryan, the country’s new poet laureate, misstated the year she won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. It was 2004, not 1994. How we handle corrections.
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