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Telling the barn swallow : poets on the poetry of Maxine Kumin
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Telling the barn swallow : poets on the poetry of Maxine Kumin

Author: Emily Grosholz
Publisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 1997.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
Despite a distinguished resume that includes a Pulitzer Prize and appointments as consultant to the Library of Congress, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Maxine Kumin and her work remain relatively unexamined by contemporary critics. This collection fills that gap through analyses by her fellow poets of topics like Kumin's diction and prosody, her literary forebears, and  Read more...
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Named Person: Maxine Kumin
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Emily Grosholz
ISBN: 0874517842 9780874517842 0874517885 9780874517880
OCLC Number: 34839738
Description: x, 198 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Wedding of meaning and measure: Kumin and the poetics of finitude / Eleanor Wilner -- Rock in the river: Maxine Kumin's rhythmic countercurrents / Annie Finch -- Remembering where everything is: the poetry of Maxine Kumin / Henry Taylor -- Maxine Kumin's poetry of metamorphosis / Emily Grosholz -- Poised in the galloping moment: Maxine Kumin's poetry / Neal Bowers -- Making the connection: the nature poetry of Maxine Kumin / Alicia Ostriker -- Retrieval system / Mark Jarman -- Maxine Kumin's sense of place in nature / Hilda Raz -- Kumin's animal confederates / Wesley McNair -- Out of our skins: transformation and the body in the poems of Maxine Kumin / Robin Becker -- Satisfactory machinery / Michael Burns -- Max's garden: for present and future consumption / Carole Simmons Oles -- Floating farm / Robin Becker -- Marriage / Robin Becker -- Chicory / Wendell Berry -- Dive / Philip Booth -- Another language / Neal Bowers -- Zaraf's star / Annie Finch -- Sidonie / Emily Grosholz -- Parents' pantoum / Carolyn Kizer -- Puppy / Wesley McNair -- Why we need poetry / Wesley McNair -- Small poem of thanks / Carole Simmons Oles -- Mid-February / Alicia Ostriker -- Family / Hilda Raz -- Postscript / Eleanor Wilner.
Responsibility: Emily Grosholz, editor.

Abstract:

Despite a distinguished resume that includes a Pulitzer Prize and appointments as consultant to the Library of Congress, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Maxine Kumin and her work remain relatively unexamined by contemporary critics. This collection fills that gap through analyses by her fellow poets of topics like Kumin's diction and prosody, her literary forebears, and characteristic thematic patterns. Also included are poems, some first published here, to or about Maxine Kumin.

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