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Maxine Kumin (1925–2014)

Autor(a) de Selected Poems 1960-1990

63+ Works 1,278 Membros 21 Críticas 5 Favorited

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

Selected Poems 1960-1990 (1997) 95 exemplares
The Microscope (1984) 66 exemplares
Looking for Luck: Poems (1992) 50 exemplares
Nurture: Poems (1989) 49 exemplares
Joey and the birthday present (1971) 45 exemplares
The Long Approach (1985) 42 exemplares
The Long Marriage: Poems (2001) 41 exemplares
Connecting the Dots: Poems (1996) 33 exemplares
Oh, Harry! (2011) 32 exemplares
Still to Mow: Poems (2007) 31 exemplares
The Retrieval System (1978) 31 exemplares
What Color Is Caesar? (1978) 27 exemplares
Jack and Other New Poems (2005) 26 exemplares
And Short the Season: Poems (2014) 24 exemplares
House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate (1975) 23 exemplares
Quit Monks or Die! (1999) 20 exemplares
The Beach before Breakfast (1964) 20 exemplares
Paul Bunyan (1966) 17 exemplares
Eggs of Things (1963) 14 exemplares
The wizard's tears (1975) 13 exemplares
The Nightmare Factory (1970) 12 exemplares
Spring Things (1961) 11 exemplares
Lizzie! (2014) 11 exemplares
The Abduction (1971) 7 exemplares
Follow the fall; (1961) 5 exemplares
Designated Heir, The (1974) 5 exemplares
Mittens in May (1962) 4 exemplares
Faraway farm, (1967) 4 exemplares
The Roots of Things: Essays (2010) 4 exemplares
Speedy digs downside up (1964) 3 exemplares
Passions of Uxport (1969) 3 exemplares
Summer story (1961) 3 exemplares
When mother was young (1970) — Autor — 3 exemplares
The Passions of Uxport (1968) 3 exemplares
A winter friend (1961) 3 exemplares
Through Dooms of Love (1965) 2 exemplares
More eggs of things 2 exemplares
More Eggs of Things 2 exemplares
Halfway (1961) 2 exemplares
A Daughter and Her Loves (1965) 1 exemplar
The designated heir (1974) 1 exemplar
Long Marriage 1 exemplar
The privilege 1 exemplar
Selected Poems 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton (1981) — Prefácio — 1,990 exemplares
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contribuidor — 397 exemplares
Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women's Spirituality (2000) — Contribuidor — 370 exemplares
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 182 exemplares
My Little Red Book (2009) — Contribuidor — 163 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 1995 (1995) — Contribuidor — 161 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1995 (1995) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 135 exemplares
The Writer on Her Work, Volume II: New Essays in New Territory (1730) — Contribuidor — 124 exemplares
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Poems from the Women's Movement (2009) — Contribuidor — 105 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 1992 (1992) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1962) — Contribuidor — 90 exemplares
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 84 exemplares
The Best American Poetry 2012 (2012) — Contribuidor — 83 exemplares
My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Contribuidor — 68 exemplares
The Ecopoetry Anthology (2013) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
Flannery O'Connor: A Celebration of Genius (2000) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Contribuidor — 28 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1979 (1979) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1974 (1974) — Contribuidor — 12 exemplares
Handspan of Red Earth: An Anthology of American Farm Poems (1991) — Contribuidor — 7 exemplares
American Review 25 (1976) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
To Eat with Grace (2014) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
The Southern California Anthology: Volume XI (1993) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 11, July 1980 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
 
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fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
Charming, colorful illustrations accompany mostly short poems by Kunin. Various rhyme schemes are represented. Good as a resource.
 
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KSchellVT | 2 outras críticas | Apr 27, 2022 |
During a horse and carriage accident Kumin fractured her neck in two places (C1 and C2). She shouldn't have survived the accident. 95% of the population with similar injuries do not. Doctors went on to tell her that 95% percent of the people who do survive that kind of Type II break are irreparably damaged; paralyzed for life. Kumin defied the odds and not only survived but gained nearly 100% percent mobility. Inside the Halo is a memoir about that journal back to near-normalcy. It is a story of courage and acceptance. Kumin's courage to fight through a long and agonizing period of recovery and acceptance that some scars, mental and physical, remain.… (mais)
 
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SeriousGrace | Oct 10, 2021 |
The poet Maxine Kumin, toward the end of her life, writes a diverse book of poems, many of them formal, reflecting on the New Hampshire farmland, nature, politics, birds, horses, her dogs, and her unsettled relationship with old age and death (Getting There is a sonnet about atheists going to heaven. The last lines of Summer Meditation read, "If only death could be/ like going to the movies/ You get up afterward/ and go out/ saying, how was it?/ Tell me, tell me how was it?")

Some of her characters include an anorexic, a Slavic immigrant nursing aid, a rapist and and her dead father, who telephones her on a Sunday Morning: "Pop!" I say, "you're dead!...

She also doesn't shy away from political events. New Hampshire, Feb. 7, 2003 is set in a blizzard, as the poet waits for the Iraq war to begin and remembers the travesty of Vietnam. Another poem is titled On being Asked during a national crisis to write a poem in celebration of the bicentennial of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Appropriate Tools is an elegy and rant, a protest of our decreased liberties and how immigrants are treated — as piercing today as it was in 2005. Women & Horses is an ode to joy and life’s extravagances in the face of barbarity and darkness.

Well worth dipping into again and again.
… (mais)
 
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deckla | Mar 4, 2019 |

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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

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