Kay Ryan

Born in California in 1945 and acknowledged as one of the most original voices in the contemporary landscape, Kay Ryan is the author of several books of poetry, including Flamingo Watching (2006), The Niagara River (2005), and Say Uncle (2000). Her book The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (2010) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.Ryan's tightly compressed, rhythmically dense poetry is often compared to that of Emily Dickinson and Marianne Moore; however, Ryan’s often barbed wit and unique facility with “recombinant” rhyme has earned her the status of one of the great living American poets, and led to her appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate in 2008. She held the position for two terms, using the appointment to champion community colleges like the one in Marin County, California where she and her partner Carol Adair taught for over thirty years. In an interview with the Washington City Paper at the end of tenure, Ryan called herself a “whistle-blower” who “advocated for much underpraised and underfunded community colleges across the nation.” Ryan’s surprising laureateship capped years of outsider-status in the poetry world. Her quizzical, philosophical, often mordant poetry is a product of years of thought. Ryan has said that her poems do not start with imagery or sound, but rather develop “the way an oyster does, with an aggravation.” Critic Meghan O’Rourke has written of her work: “Each poem twists around and back upon its argument like a river retracing its path; they are didactic in spirit, but a bedrock wit supports them.” “Sharks’ Teeth” displays that meandering approach to her subject matter, which, Ryan says, “gives my poems a coolness. I can touch things that are very hot because I’ve given them some distance.” Kay Ryan is the recipient of several major awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has received the Union League Poetry Prize and the Maurice English Poetry Award, as well as the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Since 2006 she has served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

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Rafael Ramosцитируетв прошлом году
Living with Stripes
In tigers, zebras,

and other striped creatures,

any casual posture

plays one beautiful set of lines

against another:

herringbones and arrows

appear and disappear;

chevrons widen and narrow.

Miniature themes and counterpoints

occur in the flexing and extending

of the smaller joints.

How can they stand to drink,

when lapping further complicates

the way the water duplicates their lines?

Knowing how their heads will zigzag out,

I wonder if they dread to start sometimes.
Rafael Ramosцитируетв прошлом году
Even the clean

blue-green water

of the cirque,

with nothing

in between

the snow and it

but slant

can’t speed

the work,

must wait

upon whatever

makes it white

to dissipate.

It seems

so hard to think

that even lakes

so pure

should start opaque,

that something

always

has to recombine

or sink.
Rafael Ramosцитируетв прошлом году
Not just lilacs

are like that;

other purples also

leave us vacant

portals, susceptible

to vagrant spirits.

But take that vase

of lilacs: who goes

near it is erased.

In spite of Proust,

the senses don’t

attach us to a place

or time: we’re used

by sweetness—

taken, defenseless,

invaded by a line

of Saracens,

Picts, Angles,

double rows of

fragrance-loving

ancients—people

matched casually

by nose in an

impersonal and

intermittent immortality

of purple.

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