Synopses & Reviews
Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as "The Zen of Mucking Out," then exhorts us to "Please Pay Attention," decrying Dick Cheney's "canned hunting / where you don't stay to pluck / the feathers." With equanimity, Kumin faces the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage--ending with the unspoken question of "Which of us will go down first...."
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Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. Both "delicate and powerful" (Library Journal), she faces with equanimity the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage'"ending with the unspoken question of "Which of us will go down first."
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"Kumin writes ... with the clear gaze of a journalist and the ire of an activist.... Filled with love."'"Christian Science Monitor
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"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible."--
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.