The Long Marriage: Poems Contributor(s): Kumin, Maxine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393324370 ISBN-13: 9780393324372 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1996 Annotation: THIS LUMINOUS COLLECTION is Maxine Kumin's twelfth volume of poetry, the first since her remarkable memoir, Inside the Halo. 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2001034553 |
Series: Poems |
Physical Information: 0.39" H x 5.44" W x 8.24" (0.38 lbs) 120 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kumin, Maxine: - 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. |