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Maxine Kumin


Born
in The United States
June 06, 1925

Died
February 06, 2014

Website

Genre
Poetry, Children's, Fiction


Maxine Kumin's 17th poetry collection, published in the spring of 2010, is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010. Her awards include the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes, the Poets’ Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost Medals. A former US poet laureate, she and her husband lived on a farm in New Hampshire. Maxine Kumin died in 2014. ...more

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Average rating: 4.01 · 6,065 ratings · 736 reviews · 140 distinct works • Similar authors
The Pawnbroker's Daughter
3.47 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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And Short the Season
3.81 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions
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Selected Poems, 1960-1990
3.94 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions
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Oh, Harry!
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Still to Mow
3.92 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Where I Live: New & Selecte...
4.01 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Up Country: Poems of New En...
4.09 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1972 — 3 editions
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The Long Marriage: Poems
4.09 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions
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Inside the Halo and Beyond:...
3.88 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Jack and Other New Poems
3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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“Cherish your wilderness.”
― Maxine Kumin
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“Nothing is changed, except
there was a moment when

the wolf, the mongering wolf
who stands outside the self

lay lightly down, and slept.”
― Maxine Kumin
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“What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things?”
― Maxine Kumin
tags: native, outsider
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