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​Kenneth Rexroth writes in his foreword:
“Critics somehow seem to have ignored the remarkable fact that, at the peaks and turning points of American poetry, at least since the death of Whitman, there has usually stood a woman . . . but few people, even the most passionate feminists, seem to have noticed it.”​
The Pillow Book of Carol Tinker
by Carol Tinker

Foreword by Kenneth Rexroth

First edition 1980
105 pages, 5½" x 8½"
ISBN 0-932274-08-0

Out of Print

From the Book
A spectacle of cruelty
A stand of cypress burning
The eyelid drops on no mans land
Hot ashes fall below eye level
To form a mold
Of what is seen
The mold that needs the ear to test it
Ringing true
A bell like form
Studded with rocks that fall like
Jewels from their setting
As time collapses​

About the Book

The Pillow Book of Carol Tinker is one of the most distinguished poetry collections of this year. She has a very original voice, and this collection is both powerful and moving.
— James Laughlin

This sure new collection advances Carol Tinker to an even higher place among American poets.
— Ann Stanford

In Carol Tinker's poems I hear the echoes of the music of Pure Silk Girl. They are complicated, subtle, and rich, touching many chords.
— Ling Chung

Carol Tinker's poems arise out of an extreme contemplative sensibility that can give and take with the world and the mind and the contents of both. . . . Politically outraged, contemplative, erotic, at times humorous—these are the significant themes we want celebrated again and again.
— Doren Robbins
THE THIRD RAIL

Tinker is a nimble weaver who can assemble . . . image, reference, quotation, narrative fragments and snatches of dialogue into a shimmering yet consistent whole. This process of perception governs both the making of her work and our apprehension of it.
— Peter Clothier
THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW

My favorite book on Cadmus's outstanding list is The Pillow Book of Carol Tinker, comprising forceful, exact, completely engaging poems by a hugely skilled author previously unknown to me. The book is introduced by Tinker's husband . . . the poet Kenneth Rexroth, whose work, ideas, and personality were crucial to the “San Francisco Renaissance” . . .
— Mary Biggs
CHOICE, September 1985

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