Maxine Kumin

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Maxine Kumin


Born
in The United States
June 06, 1925

Died
February 06, 2014

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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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And Short the Season

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Selected Poems, 1960-1990

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Still to Mow

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Where I Live: New & Selecte...

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Up Country: Poems of New En...

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The Long Marriage: Poems

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Inside the Halo and Beyond:...

3.88 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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Jack and Other New Poems

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“Cherish your wilderness.”
Maxine Kumin

“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

“What can an outsider know, except/the shell of things?”
Maxine Kumin

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