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And Short the Season - Poems
Maxine Kumin
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Description for And Short the Season - Poems
Paperback. From the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, a stunning collection of poems that course with the rhythms of nature." Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139. Weight in Grams: 666.
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 political poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind.
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 political poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393351187
SKU
V9780393351187
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99-15
About Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin (1925—2014), a former U.S. poet laureate, was the author of nineteen poetry collections as well as numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Her awards included the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, the Poet’s Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost medals.
Reviews for And Short the Season - Poems
"In her final collection…Kumin is as graceful and unsparing as ever, tenderly lamenting our violations against nature and each other."
Michael Andor Brodeur - Boston Globe "Reading [Kumin’s] poems is an experience of sitting with a friend, a wonderfully talented friend who can describe all of life, in a poem."
Jewish Book World "Her poetry represented both an ... Read more
Michael Andor Brodeur - Boston Globe "Reading [Kumin’s] poems is an experience of sitting with a friend, a wonderfully talented friend who can describe all of life, in a poem."
Jewish Book World "Her poetry represented both an ... Read more