Maxine Kumin (1925–2014)
Autor(a) de Selected Poems 1960-1990
About the Author
Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She received a BA and a MA from Radcliffe College. In the 1950s, she enrolled in a poetry writing course at the Boston Center for Adult Education. The course led to the publication of poems in Harper's and The New Yorker. Her first collection of poems, mostrar mais Halfway, was published in 1961. Her other poetry collections include Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, Still to Mow, and And Short the Season. She received several awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: Poems of New England. She also wrote four novels, short stories, a memoir entitled Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, essay collections, and children's books. She died of natural causes on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Maxine Kumin
To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living (Poets on Poetry) (1979) 43 exemplares
Sebastian and the dragon 3 exemplares
More eggs of things 2 exemplares
More Eggs of Things 2 exemplares
On Digging Out Old Lilacs 1 exemplar
No One Writes a Letter to a Snail 1 exemplar
Kumin, Maxine Archive 1 exemplar
Long Marriage 1 exemplar
When Grandmother Was Young 1 exemplar
The privilege 1 exemplar
Selected Poems 1 exemplar
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contribuidor — 451 exemplares
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory (1730) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 11, July 1980 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Winokur, Maxine (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1925-06-06
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-02-06
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Warner, New Hampshire, USA
- Locais de residência
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
- Educação
- Radcliffe College (AB, AM - Comparative Literature)
- Ocupações
- poet
novelist
children's book author
essayist
short-story writer
teacher - Relações
- Sexton, Anne (friend, collaborator)
- Organizações
- New England College
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1999)
Frost Medal (2006)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1985)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1980)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1981-1982)
Aiken Taylor Award (1995) (mostrar todos 7)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1967)
Membros
Críticas
Prémios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 63
- Also by
- 33
- Membros
- 1,278
- Popularidade
- #20,060
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 21
- ISBN
- 80
- Marcado como favorito
- 5