The Long Marriage - Poems

Themes of loyalty, longevity, and recovery appear here, along with poems addressing the eminent dead: Wordsworth, Gorki, Rukeyser, and others. "Inescapably, many poems come up out of the earth I live on and tend to," Kumin says.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

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.

Zusammenfassung

This luminous collection is Maxine Kumin's twelfth volume of poetry, the first since her remarkable memoir, Inside the Halo.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Maxine Kumin
• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 08.01.2010
• EAN: 9780393324372
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32437-2
• Abmessung: 140 mm x 208 mm x 13 mm
• Gewicht: 163 g
• Serien: Poems; Poems
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets