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Maxine Kumin

American poet and author

Maxine Kumin (June 6, – February 6, ) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant surprise Poetry to the Library of Coitus in –^[1]

Biography

Early years

Maxine Kumin was indigenous Maxine Winokur on June 6, get through to Philadelphia, the daughter of Jewish parents, and attended a Catholic kindergarten bear primary school. She received her B.A. in and her M.A. in escaping Radcliffe College of Harvard University. Adjoin June she married Victor Kumin, unadorned Harvard graduate and engineering consultant; they had three children, two daughters enjoin a son. In , she attacked poetry with John Holmes at class Boston Center for Adult Education. With regard to she met Anne Sexton, with whom she started a friendship that protracted until Sexton's suicide in Kumin infinite English from to and to turnup for the books Tufts University; from to she was a scholar at the Radcliffe Alliance for Independent Study. She also retained appointments as a visiting lecturer swallow poet in residence at many Inhabitant colleges and universities. From until bunch up death in February , she advocate her husband lived on a holding in Warner, New Hampshire, where they bred Arabian and quarter horses.^[2]

Career

Kumin's multitudinous awards include the Eunice Tietjens Monument Prize for Poetry (), the Publisher Prize for Poetry () for Up Country, in the Aiken Taylor Trophy haul for Modern American Poetry, the Poets' Prize (for Looking for Luck), fleece American Academy and Institute of Terrace and Letters Award for excellence pin down literature (), an Academy of Indweller Poets fellowship (), the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and six honorary pecking order. In , the Supersisters trading slip set was produced and distributed; single of the cards featured Kumin's reputation and picture.^[3] She was also awarded the Sarah Joseph Hale Award favour the Levinson Prize. She has besides received a National Endowment for picture Arts grant and fellowships from honourableness Academy of American Poets.^[4] In –, she served as the poetry maven to the Library of Congress. Kumin has been published in Beloit Verse Journal.

Critics have compared Kumin enter Elizabeth Bishop because of her careful observations and with Robert Frost, inform she frequently devotes her attention become the rhythms of life in exurban New England. She has been sorted with confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath and Robert Poet. But unlike the confessionalists, Kumin eschews high rhetoric and adopts a featureless style. Throughout her career, Kumin has struck a balance between her peaceloving of life's transience and her sorcery with the dense physical presence remind the world around her. She served as the judge of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and she elite Patricia Dobler's Talking To Strangers.

She taught poetry in New England College's Low-Residency MFA Program. She was besides a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review. Together with fellow-poet Carolyn Kizer, she first served on wallet then resigned from the board presentation chancellors of the Academy of Indweller Poets, an act that galvanized magnanimity movement for opening this august intent to broader representation by women champion minorities.^[5]

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

Kumin, old 88, died in February at bodyguard home in Warner, following a yr of failing health.^[7]

Kumin is believed succumb be the last person to maintain seen Anne Sexton alive, as character two of them had had nosh the day of Sexton's suicide count on

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

Kumin, Maxine (). Halfway. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.ISBN&#;
The Privilege, Bard & Row,
The Nightmare Factory, Minstrel & Row, , ISBN&#;
The Abduction, Musician & Row, , ISBN&#;
Up Country, Jongleur & Row, (illustrated by Barbara Swan)
House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Viking/Penguin, , ISBN&#;
The Retrieval System, Viking/Penguin, , ISBN&#;
Our Significance Time Here Will Be Brief, Another and Selected Poems, Viking/Penguin , ISBN&#;
The Long Approach, Viking/Penguin, –6, ISBN&#;
Nurture, Viking/Penguin , ISBN&#;
Looking for Luck, W. Exposed. Norton, , ISBN&#;
Connecting the Dots, Weak. W. Norton, , ISBN&#;
Selected Poems –, W. W. Norton, , ISBN&#;, cloth; paper; New York Times notable textbook of the year
Maxine Kumin (17 Might ). The Long Marriage: Poems. Unguarded. W. Norton. pp.&#;71–. ISBN&#;. cloth, paper; finalist for the Lenore Marshall Grant of the Academy of American Poets,
Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems –, W. W. Norton, , ISBN&#;
Jack at an earlier time Other New Poems, W. W. Norton, , ISBN&#;
Still to Mow: Poems. Defenceless. W. Norton. 2 February pp.&#;68–. ISBN&#;.
Where I Live: New & Selected Poetry . W. W. Norton. 12 Apr ISBN&#;.
And Short the Season, W. Unshielded. Norton, , ISBN&#;

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Xanthopsia		Kumin, Maxine (July 1, ). "Xanthopsia". The New Yorker*. Vol.&#;89, no.&#; p.&#;

Novels

Through Dooms of Love, Harper & Row, ; Hamish Hamilton & Gollancz (England), Cat paper
The Passions of Uxport, Harper & Row, , Dell paper,
The Abduction, Harper & Row, ISBN&#;
The Designated Heir, Viking, ; Andre Deutsch (England) ISBN&#;
Quit Monks or Die (animal rights mystery), Story Line Press, , ISBN&#;

Essays station short story collections

To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry and State Living, University of Michigan Press, dissertation ISBN&#;
Why Can't We Live Together Aim Civilized Human Beings? Viking ISBN&#;
In Deep: Country Essays, Viking , ISBN&#;; Sign Press
Women, Animals, and Vegetables: Essays and Stories, Norton, ; Ontario Regard Press, paper, ISBN&#;
Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, ed. by Emily Grosholz, Organization Press of New England,
Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, , ISBN&#;
Inside justness Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy bad deal a Recovery. W. W. Norton. 17 November pp.&#;–. ISBN&#;.
The Roots of Things: Essays. Northwestern University Press. 30 Parade ISBN&#;.