Synopses & Reviews
A landmark collection celebrating the remarkable range of Maxine Kumin, one of America's greatest living poets. gathers poems from five previous books, together with twenty-three new poems that pay homage to Kumin's farm life and to poets of the past.
Synopsis
"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible."--Booklist
About the Author
Maxine Kumin (1925--2014), a former U.S. poet laureate, was the author of nineteen poetry collections as well as numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Her awards included the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, the Poet's Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost medals.