Maxine Kumin: 9 books

Book cover of The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015

From Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin comes a timeless memoir of life, love, and poetry. Maxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist. The Pawnbroker’s Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in a Jewish community in Depression-era Philadelphia, where...
Book cover of The Wizard's Tears
by Maxine Kumin, Anne Sexton
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019

A lonely wizard moves to a new town in this charming children's story by renowned American poets Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin, now in print again for the first time in decades. Everything is going wrong in the town of Drocknock until the new wizard arrives. He is very young, and he is lonely,...
Book cover of Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2001

"Here is a singular story of survival, an earthly miracle wrought by family devotion, gardens, horses, guts. A compelling read."—Carolyn Heilbrun In July 1998, when Maxine Kumin's horse bolted at a carriage-driving clinic, she was not expected to live. Yet, less than a year later,...
Book cover of The Long Marriage: Poems
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2003

This luminous collection is Maxine Kumin's twelfth volume of poetry, the first since her remarkable memoir, Inside the Halo. Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, along with poems addressing the eminent dead: Wordsworth, Gorki, Rukeyser, and others. "Inescapably, many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to," Kumin says.
Book cover of Still to Mow: Poems
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009

"Kumin writes ... with the clear gaze of a journalist and the ire of an activist.... Filled with love."—Christian Science Monitor Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. Both "delicate and powerful" (Library...
Book cover of And Short the Season: Poems
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, a stunning collection of poems that course with the rhythms of nature. 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,...
Book cover of Jack and Other New Poems
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2006

"Measured but warm, this work draws you in; it is another success among her many titles."--Library Journal In her fifteenth collection, Maxine Kumin meditates on the social consequences of such events as the bicentennial of the Civil War, and looks to poets writing from circumstances...
Book cover of Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1989
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2005

"The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible."—Booklist Collected here for the first time, these early poems inhabit Kumin's own "sneakstorm time," a space one step to the side, where quiet introspection examines the pain...
Book cover of Lizzie!
by Maxine Kumin
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

Lizzie, age eleven, does not let her wheelchair get in the way of her curiosity. After she is partially paralyzed in a diving accident, Lizzie and her single mom are starting life over in a small town in Florida, where Lizzie’s thirst for knowledge and adventure makes her some unlikely friends and...
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