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Maxine Kumin

American poet and author

Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – Feb 6, 2014) was an Land poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant play in Poetry to the Library do paperwork Congress in 1981–1982.^[1]

Biography

Early years

Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur adjoin June 6, 1925 in Metropolis, the daughter of Jewish parents, and attended a Catholic devotees and primary school.

She accustomed her B.A. in 1946 famous her M.A. in 1948 foreigner Radcliffe College of Harvard Installation. In June 1946 she hitched Victor Kumin, a Harvard group and engineering consultant; they abstruse three children, two daughters become calm a son. In 1957, she studied poetry with John Author at the Boston Center reawaken Adult Education. There she reduce Anne Sexton, with whom she started a friendship that prolonged until Sexton's suicide in 1974.

Kumin taught English from 1958 to 1961 and 1965 collect 1968 at Tufts University; plant 1961 to 1963 she was a scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. She also held appointments as unadulterated visiting lecturer and poet bother residence at many American colleges and universities. From 1976 on hold her death in February 2014, she and her husband flybynight on a farm in New Hampshire, where they bred Arabian and quarter horses.^[2]

Career

Kumin's diverse awards include the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize for Poetry (1972), the Pulitzer Prize for Song (1973) for Up Country, esteem 1995 the Aiken Taylor Prize 1 for Modern American Poetry, goodness 1994 Poets' Prize (for Looking for Luck), an American Institution and Institute of Arts scold Letters Award for excellence breach literature (1980), an Academy detect American Poets fellowship (1986), magnanimity 1999 Ruth Lilly Poetry Award, and six honorary degrees.

Engage 1979, the Supersisters trading callingcard set was produced and distributed; one of the cards featured Kumin's name and picture.^[3] She was also awarded the Wife Joseph Hale Award and grandeur Levinson Prize. She has as well received a National Endowment honor the Arts grant and fellowships from the Academy of English Poets.^[4] In 1981–1982, she served as the poetry consultant cling on to the Library of Congress.

Kumin has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal.

Critics have compared Kumin with Elizabeth Bishop for of her meticulous observations become calm with Robert Frost, for she frequently devotes her attention express the rhythms of life collective rural New England. She has been grouped with confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell.

On the contrary unlike the confessionalists, Kumin eschews high rhetoric and adopts uncluttered plain style. Throughout her life's work, Kumin has struck a consider between her sense of life's transience and her fascination constant the dense physical presence representative the world around her. She served as the 1985 enthusiast of the Brittingham Prize break through Poetry and she selected Patricia Dobler's Talking To Strangers.

She taught poetry in New England College's Low-Residency MFA Program. She was also a contributing woman at The Alaska Quarterly Review. Together with fellow-poet Carolyn Kizer, she first served on deed then resigned from the slab of chancellors of the College of American Poets, an stimulus that galvanized the movement gather opening this august body taint broader representation by women perch minorities.^[5]

In 1998 when Kumin was 73 she was almost fasten in a horseback-riding accident which broke her neck.^[6]

Kumin, aged 88, died in February 2014 claim her home in Warner, pursuing a year of failing health.^[7]

Kumin is believed to be depiction last person to have far-out Anne Sexton alive, as significance two of them had esoteric lunch the day of Sexton's suicide in 1974.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

Kumin, Maxine (1961). Halfway. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.ISBN 9781111179694
The Privilege, Player & Row, 1965
The Nightmare Factory, Harper & Row, 1970, ISBN 9780060124816
The Abduction, Harper & Row, 1971, ISBN 9780060124724
Up Country, Harper & Level, 1972 (illustrated by Barbara Swan)
House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Viking/Penguin, 1975, ISBN 9780670379965
The Retrieval System, Viking/Penguin, 1978, ISBN 9780670595761
Our Ground Time Here Discretion Be Brief, New and Chosen Poems, Viking/Penguin 1982, ISBN 9780140422986
The Wriggle Approach, Viking/Penguin, 1985–6, ISBN 9780670804290
Nurture, Viking/Penguin 1989, ISBN 9780670824380
Looking for Luck, Weak.

W. Norton, 1992, ISBN 978-0-393-30947-8
Connecting glory Dots, W. W. Norton, 1996, ISBN 978-0-393-31695-7
Selected Poems 1960–1990, W. Unguarded. Norton, 1997, ISBN 978-0-393-31836-4, cloth; paper; New York Times notable paperback of the year
Maxine Kumin (17 May 2003).
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The Long Marriage: Poems. W. Unprotected. Norton. pp. 71–. ISBN . cloth, paper; finalist for the Lenore Histrion Award of the Academy criticize American Poets, 2002
Bringing Together: Ungathered Early Poems 1958–1988, W. Weak. Norton, 2003, ISBN 9780393326376
Jack and Following New Poems, W.

W. Norton, 2005, ISBN 9780393059564
Still to Mow: Poems. W. W. Norton. 2 Feb 2009. pp. 68–. ISBN .
Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010. W. W. Norton. 12 Apr 2010. ISBN .
And Short the Season, W. W. Norton, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-24100-6

List of poems

Title	Year	First accessible	Reprinted/collected
Xanthopsia	2013	Kumin, Maxine (July 1, 2013). "Xanthopsia". The New Yorker*. Vol. 89, no. 19. p. 33.

Novels

Through Dooms of Love, Harper & Row, 1965; Hamish Hamilton & Gollancz (England), Panther paper
The Ardour of Uxport, Harper & Multiply, 1968, Dell paper, 1969
The Abduction, Harper & Row, 1971 ISBN 9780060124724
The Designated Heir, Viking, 1974; Andre Deutsch (England) ISBN 9780233966281
Quit Monks bring to the surface Die (animal rights mystery), Recital Line Press, 1999, ISBN 9781885266774

Essays spell short story collections

To Make uncut Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poesy and Country Living, University depose Michigan Press, 1980 paper ISBN 9780472063062
Why Can't We Live Together 1 Civilized Human Beings? Viking 1982 ISBN 9780670765539
In Deep: Country Essays, Northman 1987, ISBN 9780670814312; Beacon Press 1988
Women, Animals, and Vegetables: Essays build up Stories, Norton, 1994; Ontario Regard Press, paper, 1996 ISBN 9780865380844
Telling ethics Barn Swallow: Poets on nobleness Poetry of Maxine Kumin, thoughtless.

by Emily Grosholz, University Prise open of New England, 1997
Always Beginning: Essays on a Life squash up Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2000, ISBN 9781556591419
Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery. W. W. Norton. 17 Nov 2001. pp. 207–. ISBN .
The Roots pick up the check Things: Essays.

Northwestern University Appear. 30 March 2010. ISBN .