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A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin is "unforgettable, indispensable" (). In , her stunning last collection, she muses on mortality: her own, and that of the earth. These deeply personal, always political poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind.
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"Exquisite pastorals of her New Hampshire farm mix with politics and echoes of past poets, possessing a directness that makes each piece necessary and vital." Tom Lavoie Shelf Awareness
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"Filled with joy, sorrow, anger, mortality, politics and horses." Amber Tamblyn Bust
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"Kumin is as graceful and unsparing as ever... One of Kumin's best aspects as a poet was her regard for words, which she held as precious as any other living thing." Shelf Awareness
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"Unlike many of her contemporaries, including Anne Sexton, Kumin knew how to trim the deadness around her, letting the life come through for decades... Short the season, but long the legacy." Hector Tobar Los Angeles Times
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"In her final collection...Kumin is as graceful and unsparing as ever, tenderly lamenting our violations against nature and each other." Michael Andor Brodeur
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"Reading [Kumin's] poems is an experience of sitting with a friend, a wonderfully talented friend who can describe all of life, in a poem." Boston Globe
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"Her poetry represented both an alertness to and an investment in the sanctified details of the natural world, a love of the music of the commonplace." Jewish Book World
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"Alongside her friend and collaborator Anne Sexton, [Kumin] embarked on a career that helped redefine what American poetry could be." Philip Schultz The New Yorker
Synopsis
A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin is "unforgettable, indispensable" (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season, her stunning last collection, she muses on mortality: her own, and that of the earth. These deeply personal, always political poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind.
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, a stunning collection of poems that course with the rhythms of nature.
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.