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Looking for Luck
Poems
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 1993
238 kr
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"From a marketplace in Bangkok to the fields of New Hampshire, from recollections of her own childhood to celebrations of an infant grandson, Kumin stakes her far-flung claims with authority in her tenth book of poetry."--Publishers Weekly
Connecting the Dots
Poems
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 1998
234 kr
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In these new poems, her eleventh collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet focuses on the themes of family, friendship, the pleasures and rigors of rural life and the animal world that have always engaged her powerfully and fruitfully. Change and the things that never change attract Kumin's …
Selected Poems, 1960-1990
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 1998
329 kr
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Since the publication of her first book of poetry, Halfway, Maxine Kumin has been powerfully and fruitfully engaged in the "stuff of life that matters": family, friendship, the bond between the human and natural worlds, and the themes of loss and survival.
Inside the Halo and Beyond
The Anatomy of a Recovery
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 2001
288 kr
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In July 1998, when Maxine Kumin's horse bolted at a carriage-driving clinic, she was not expected to live. Yet, less than a year later, her progress pronounced a miracle by her doctors, she was at work on this journal of her astonishing recovery. She tells of her time "inside the halo," the …
Long Marriage
Poems
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 2003
288 kr
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Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, along with poems addressing the eminent dead: Wordsworth, Gorki, Rukeyser, and others. "Inescapably, many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to," Kumin says.
Bringing Together
Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1989
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 2005
255 kr
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Collected here for the first time, these early poems inhabit Kumin's own "sneakstorm time," a space one step to the side, where quiet introspection examines the pain of loss, the idealism of youth, and the endurance of the natural world. Her characteristic earthy wisdom snaps with intensity, …
Jack and Other New Poems
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 2006
263 kr
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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 …
Still to Mow
Poems
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 2009
255 kr
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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 …
Where I Live
New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 2011
266 kr
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A landmark collection celebrating the remarkable range of Maxine Kumin, one of America’s greatest living poets. Where I Live 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.
To Make a Prairie
Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 1979
319 kr
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Kumin reflects on the process of writing poetry and on life in the country
Lizzie!
Av Maxine Kumin
Inbunden, 2014
212 kr
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Meet Lizzie Peterlinz, age 11. Paralyzed below the waist after slipping off a diving board two years ago, Lizzie does not let her wheelchair get in the way of her curiosity. She and her single mother are starting life over in a small town in Florida, where Lizzie's hunger for knowledge and …
Lizzie!
Av Maxine Kumin
E-bok, 2014
268 kr
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Lizzie, age eleven, does not let her wheelchair get in the way of her curiosity. After she is partially paralyzed in a diving accident, Lizzie and her single mom are starting life over in a small town in Florida, where Lizzie’s thirst for knowledge and adventure makes her some unlikely friends and …
Wizard's Tears
Inbunden, 2019
188 kr
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A lonely wizard moves to a new town in this charming children's story by renowned American poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, now in print again for the first time in decades. Everything is going wrong in the town of Drocknock until the new wizard arrives. He is very young, and he is lonely, and …
Pawnbroker's Daughter
A Memoir
Av Maxine Kumin
Inbunden, 2015
204 kr
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Maxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist. The Pawnbroker’s Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in a Jewish community in Depression-era Philadelphia, where Kumin’s father was a pawnbroker, to Radcliffe College, where she comes into her own as an intellectual …
And Short the Season
Poems
Av Maxine Kumin
Häftad, 2015
154 kr
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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 …
Lofty Dogmas
Poets on Poetics
Av Deborah Brown, Annie Finch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
782 kr
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Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on …
Lofty Dogmas
Poets on Poetics
Av Deborah Brown, Annie Finch m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
379 kr
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Compiled by three noted poets, this is an eclectic, stimulating, and informed selection of poets' remarks on poetry spanning eras, ethnicities, and aesthetics. The 102 selections from nearly as many poets reach back to the Greeks and Romans, then draw on Chaucer, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Milton, on …
