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Maxine Kumin Poetry Reading
No full textNovember 17th, 1982 at Bard Hall. Maxine Kumin shares poems from various collections, touching on themes of nature, family, feminism, and mortality. Kumin provides context and personal anecdotes for many of the poems.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/poetry_at_bard/1054/thumbnail.jp
Reading: Maxine Kumin
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 19, 1986, as part of the 17th Annual UND Writers Conference: “To Make a Prairie,” Maxine Kumin reads a selection of poems, including “Fräulein Reads Instructive Rhymes,” “Casablanca,” “Morning Swim,” “Watering Trough,” “Woodchucks,” “The Hermit Meets the Skunk,” “Amanda Dreams She Has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields,” “In the Root Cellar,” “A Mortal Day of No Surprises,” “July Against Hunger,” “Splitting Wood at Six Above,” “Birthday Poem,” “The Envelope,” “My Father\u27s Neckties,” “The Longing to be Saved,” “Feeding Time,” “You Are in Bear Country,” “Atlantic City, 1939,” “Grandchild,” “Video Cuisine,” “Getting Through,” “After the Harvest” [Note: the reading of this poem is interrupted], and “The Long Approach.
Maxine Kumin, 10th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMaxine Kumin has published seven books of poetry, five books of fiction, two collections of essays, and twenty books for children. Her book Up Country was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973. Former chair of the NEA Literature Panel, she has taught at Tufts, the University of Massachusetts, and Princeton. Currently, she lives and works on her farm in New Hampshire. A profound spiritual connection to the land and to the realm of animals infuses Kumin\u27s work with regenerative energy. Again and again, her poems explore the human role in the continuum, whether destructive or nourishing.
Booklist Poetry: Halfway; The Privilege; The Nightmare Factory; Up Country; House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate; The Retrieval System; Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief; The Long Approach. Fiction: Through Dreams of Love; The Passions of Uxport; The Abduction; The Designated Heir; Why Can\u27t We Live Together Like Civilized Human Beings?. Essays: To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living; In Deep: Country Essays
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The Poetic Voice and the Romantic Tradition in the Poetry of Maxine Kumin
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to explore elements of the Romantic tradition in the poetry of Maxine Kumin and the poetic voice of Ms. Kumin as she writes in this tradition. The poet's choice of poetic-persona illustrates a growth of the consciousness, an identity of self. Of particular interest is the poet's close interaction with nature and use of natural symbols and images. A principal motif in Kumin's poetry is the common man. Another theme is the poet's role in the family. In poems exalting nature and the person who lives in simple and close interaction with nature, a number of men from the past and present are subjects of Kumin's poetry
Jewish Identity over the Life Cycle: Poems by Maxine Kumin and Linda Pastan
No full textStuart Charme’ et al (2008) propose a complex, spiral-shaped model of Jewish identity, in which one’s identity evolves over a lifetime, responding to Jewish issues according to changing circumstances and one’s stage in the life cycle, and is influenced by other identities that one has. Responding to their call for longitudinal studies, Rubin argues that the poems of Maxine Kumin and Linda Pastan, composed over more than fifty years of writing, provide just such insight into their developing Jewish identity. To trace this, she discusses poems about their childhood experiences with family and culture, poems that reveal their responses to experiences (visits to Israel) and events (Hamas election victory), and late life poems that both revisit earlier issues related to Jewishness and branch out in new directions. Many of their poems also reveal the interaction of other identities (environmentalist, feminist, universalist, art-lover) with their Jewish selves. While the “Jewish” poems of the two women follow in some respects different trajectories, Pastan’s revisiting late in life the immigration experience of her relatives, Kumin’s including a new element, sacred Jewish texts, in a recent collection, they both also present responses to common experiences of twentieth century Jewish life
Writing about women's lives, undated
No full textWriting about women's lives, produced by the Feminist Radio Network, presents an interview with authors Grace Paley, Maxine Kumin, and Alice Walker, undated. Broadcast features excerpts from Everyday Use by Alice Walker and The Fairest One of All by Maxine Kumin
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