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In my heart, a scatter like milkweed, a flinging from the pods of the soul. My skin presses your old outline. It is hot and dry inside. I think of the last day of your life, old friend, how I would unwind it, paste. it together in a different collage, back from the death car idling in the garage, back up the stairs, your praying hands unlaced,
Maxine Kumin is the author of 18 collections of poetry, from her first collection, Halfway, published in 1961 when she was 36 years old to her final collection, And Short the Season, published in 2014 after she died at the age of 88. While she never considered herself a “confessional” poet, she chronicled her experiences […]
7 feb 2014 · Maxine Kumin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose spare, deceptively simple lines explored some of the most complex aspects of human existence — birth and death, evanescence and renewal, and the ...
In college, I began reading the poets from Boston’s fabled mid-century: Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Peter Davison, Anne Sexton, and Maxine Kumin, among others. Only three from this remarkable coterie were alive at the turn of the millennium when my collegiate mentor, Michael Harper, insisted that I learn my “geography”—his shorthand for the ...
Maxine Kumin (b.1925) came to prominence as one of a generation of women poets who extended the boundaries of poetry, addressing areas of female experience which had not previously been written about. Less overtly political than Adrienne Rich and not as explicitly confessional as Anne Sexton or Sylvia Plath, Kumin’s own understated voice has ...
Maxine Kumin 1925–2014: The Long Approach: A Life in Poetry. I think I am going to get personal in this essay, because my subject is a person first, poet next, though the two, in her case, are not separable, and that inability to separate her life from her poems will be very much my subject, as it was hers. I shall call her Max, because that ...
Maxine Kumin nació en 1925 en Filadelfia. Kumin, aunque hija de padres judíos, fue a una guardería y colegio católicos. Logró su licenciatura en 1946 y un Master of Arts en 1948 en Radcliffe College. En junio de 1946 se casó con Victor Kumin, un consultor de ingeniería; tuvieron dos hijas y un hijo. En 1957 comenzó a estudiar poesía ...
