Connecting the Dots: Poems

Kumin, Maxine

ISBN 10: 0393316955 / ISBN 13: 9780393316957

Published by Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1998

About this Item

86 pages. Text clean. Book tight. Condition of Book Fine+++.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connecting the Dots: Poems
• Publisher: Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393316955
• ISBN 13: 9780393316957
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY / POETIC

About this title

Synopsis

"Kumin's is a poetry of wide sympathy and tact in which the ecumenical flavor is dominant. . . . This collection is full of generational severance and renewal, and a tart and compassionate irony."―The New Yorker

In these new poems, her eleventh collection, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet focuses on the themes of family, friendship, the pleasures and rigors of rural life and the animal world that have always engaged her powerfully and fruitfully. Change and the things that never change attract Kumin's attention equally. Whether chronicling the bounty of summer, the cycle of seasons, or memories of youthful parties, her voice is clear, wise, and compelling.

About the Author

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.