Synopses & Reviews
In her fifteenth collection, Maxine Kumin meditates on the social consequences of such events as the bicentennial of the Civil War, and looks to poets writing from circumstances vastly different from her own. With death the central theme, poems of the body and praise songs for beloved animals explore how memory consoles and haunts.
Synopsis
In her fifteenth collection, Maxine Kumin meditates on the social consequences of such events as the bicentennial of the Civil War, and looks to poets writing from circumstances vastly different from her own. With death the central theme, poems of the body and praise songs for beloved animals explore how memory consoles and haunts.
Synopsis
"Measured but warm, this work draws you in; it is another success among her many titles."--
About the Author
is the author of eighteen poetry collections as well as numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, the Poet’s Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost medals. A former U.S. poet laureate, she and her husband live on a farm in central New Hampshire where for forty years they bred Arabian horses and took in a succession of rescued dogs.