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A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet recounts the birth of a foal, the rehabilitation of an abused mare, the beauty of home-grown vegetables, the organic nature of writing, and other aspects of life on her New Hampshire farm.
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A collection beginning with consistently engaging essays loses its footing in the dreary fiction that follows, bringing Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Kumin's (In Deep, 1987, etc.) latest to a wobbly end. The poet in Kumin is fully evident in her essays. With florid, not fussy, prose and precise observation, she chronicles life on her New Hampshire farm, elevating jicama (``a delightfully crunchy root I first met on an hors...
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Kumin's essays are so direct and her anecdotes so homey, you almost forget they're the work of a Pulitzer Prizewinning poet. In fact, as Kumin confides in Have Saddle, Will Travel, a revealing look at the quirkiness of the poetry business, she tells strangers that she raises horses instead of admitting that she writes. This is only a slight misrepresentation, since Kumin is a passionate and skilled equestrienne. She...
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- PublisherW W Norton & Co Inc
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0393036553
- ISBN 13 9780393036558
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages299
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