| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
118 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Skinnydipping with William Wordsworth -- Thinking of Gorki While Clearing a Trail -- Imagining Marianne Moore in the Butterfly Garden -- The Greenhouse Effect -- Mother of Everyone -- Rilke Revisited -- Pantoum, with Swan -- Hard Frost: On a Line by Hopkins -- Why There Will Always Be Thistle -- The Politics of Bindweed -- The Brown Mountain -- The Potato Sermon -- The Exchange -- Highway Hypothesis -- Calling Out of Grays Point -- Opening the Doors of Perception in Grays Point -- 8 A.M. in Grays Point -- Afoot in Grays Point -- My Life -- Ghazal: On the Table -- Wagons -- The Woman Who Moans -- Grady, Who Lost a Leg in Korea, Addresses Me in the Rehab Gym -- Grand Canyon -- William Remembers the Outbreak of Civil War -- Identifying the Disappeared -- Bringing Down the Birds -- Soldiers -- Capital Punishment -- Want -- The Long Marriage -- Keeping in Touch -- Hark, Hark -- The Joy of Cooking, 1931 -- Wood -- Domesticity -- John Green Takes His Warner, New Hampshire, Neighbor to a Red Sox Game -- Lying in Bed Away from Home -- A Place by the Sea -- Flying -- Giving Birth -- A Game of Nettles -- The Collection -- The Angel -- The Ancient Lady Poets -- Three Dreams After a Suicide -- Oblivion. |
| Summary |
After her near-fatal accident, chronicled in her remarkable memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond, Maxine Kumin feared that poetry might have "deserted" her. This luminous, reflective collection proves her wrong, and it is a special cause for celebration. Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, and in a series of poems Kumin finds inspiration in addressing other poets, especially the eminent dead: "Skinnydipping with Wordsworth," "Imagining Marianne Moore in a Butterfly Garden," "Rilke Revisited." Especially intimate and poignant are poems about Anne Sexton, "Three Dreams After a Suicide." Finally, nature, both directly and metaphorically, continues to engage Kumin. "Inescapably," she says, "many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to." |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors.
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American poetry -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807417
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| ISBN |
0393043517 |
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9780393043518 |
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