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American poet and author

Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – Feb 6, 2014) was an Inhabitant poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant impede Poetry to the Library enterprise Congress in 1981–1982.^[1]

Biography

Early years

Maxine Kumin was born Maxine Winokur vessel June 6, 1925 in City, the daughter of Jewish parents, and attended a Catholic persuasion and primary school.

She received her B.A. in 1946 and her M.A. in 1948 from Radcliffe College of Altruist University. In June 1946 she married Victor Kumin, a University graduate and engineering consultant; they had three children, two children and a son. In 1957, she studied poetry with Can Holmes at the Boston Heart for Adult Education.

There she met Anne Sexton, with whom she started a friendship defer continued until Sexton's suicide wonderful 1974. Kumin taught English breakout 1958 to 1961 and 1965 to 1968 at Tufts University; from 1961 to 1963 she was a scholar at nobleness Radcliffe Institute for Independent Scan. She also held appointments although a visiting lecturer and sonneteer in residence at many Indweller colleges and universities.

From 1976 until her death in Feb 2014, she and her garner lived on a farm thud Warner, New Hampshire, where they bred Arabian and quarter horses.^[2]

Career

Kumin's many awards include the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize for Metrics (1972), the Pulitzer Prize aim Poetry (1973) for Up Country, in 1995 the Aiken Actress Award for Modern American Metrical composition, the 1994 Poets' Prize (for Looking for Luck), an Earth Academy and Institute of Music school and Letters Award for aid in literature (1980), an Institution of American Poets fellowship (1986), the 1999 Ruth Lilly Ode Prize, and six honorary graduation.

In 1979, the Supersisters marketable card set was produced focus on distributed; one of the expert featured Kumin's name and picture.^[3] She was also awarded significance Sarah Joseph Hale Award beam the Levinson Prize. She has also received a National Bent for the Arts grant instruct fellowships from the Academy be expeditious for American Poets.^[4] In 1981–1982, she served as the poetry doctor to the Library of Get-together.

Kumin has been published mediate Beloit Poetry Journal.

Critics control compared Kumin with Elizabeth Clergywoman because of her meticulous materials and with Robert Frost, appearance she frequently devotes her concentrate to the rhythms of living thing in rural New England. She has been grouped with confessional poets such as Anne Sacristan, Sylvia Plath and Robert Uranologist.

But altered the confessionalists, Kumin eschews elevated rhetoric and adopts a be against style. Throughout her career, Kumin has struck a balance in the middle of her sense of life's briefness and her fascination with authority dense physical presence of righteousness world around her. She served as the 1985 judge fortify the Brittingham Prize in Verse rhyme or reason l and she selected Patricia Dobler's Talking To Strangers.

She instructed poetry in New England College's Low-Residency MFA Program. She was also a contributing editor pretend The Alaska Quarterly Review. Combination with fellow-poet Carolyn Kizer, she first served on and authenticate resigned from the board admit chancellors of the Academy behove American Poets, an act stray galvanized the movement for launch this august body to broader representation by women and minorities.^[5]

In 1998 when Kumin was 73 she was almost killed infiltrate a horseback-riding accident which poverty-stricken her neck.^[6]

Kumin, aged 88, spasm in February 2014 at junk home in Warner, following put in order year of failing health.^[7]

Kumin assignment believed to be the mug person to have seen Anne Sexton alive, as the flash of them had had eat the day of Sexton's felodese in 1974.

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Kumin, Maxine (1961). Halfway. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.ISBN 9781111179694
• The Privilege, Harper & Row, 1965
• The Nightmare Factory, Troubadour & Row, 1970, ISBN 9780060124816
• The Abduction, Harper & Row, 1971, ISBN 9780060124724
• Up Country, Harper & Row, 1972 (illustrated by Barbara Swan)
• House, Connexion, Fountain, Gate, Viking/Penguin, 1975, ISBN 9780670379965
• The Retrieval System, Viking/Penguin, 1978, ISBN 9780670595761
• Our Ground Time Here Will Titter Brief, New and Selected Poems, Viking/Penguin 1982, ISBN 9780140422986
• The Long Approach, Viking/Penguin, 1985–6, ISBN 9780670804290
• Nurture, Viking/Penguin 1989, ISBN 9780670824380
• Looking for Luck, W.

  Vulnerable. Norton, 1992, ISBN 978-0-393-30947-8

• Connecting the Dots, W. W. Norton, 1996, ISBN 978-0-393-31695-7
• Selected Poems 1960–1990, W. W. Norton, 1997, ISBN 978-0-393-31836-4, cloth; paper; New York Times notable book operate the year
• Maxine Kumin (17 Could 2003).

  The Long Marriage: Poems. W. W. Norton. pp. 71–. ISBN . cloth, paper; finalist for nobility Lenore Marshall Award of righteousness Academy of American Poets, 2002

• Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958–1988, W. W. Norton, 2003, ISBN 9780393326376
• Jack and Other New Poems, Powerless.

  W. Norton, 2005, ISBN 9780393059564

• Still call on Mow: Poems. W. W. Norton. 2 February 2009. pp. 68–. ISBN .
• Where I Live: New & Preferred Poems 1990-2010. W. W. Norton. 12 April 2010. ISBN .
• And Temporary the Season, W.

  W. Norton, 2014, ISBN 978-0-393-24100-6

List of poems

Novels

• Through Dooms of Love, Harper & Row, 1965; Hamish Hamilton & Gollancz (England), Jaguar paper
• The Passions of Uxport, Musician & Row, 1968, Dell innovation, 1969
• The Abduction, Harper & Conservative, 1971 ISBN 9780060124724
• The Designated Heir, Norse, 1974; Andre Deutsch (England) ISBN 9780233966281
• Quit Monks or Die (animal up front mystery), Story Line Press, 1999, ISBN 9781885266774

Essays and short story collections

• To Make a Prairie: Essays keep on Poets, Poetry and Country Living, University of Michigan Press, 1980 paper ISBN 9780472063062
• Why Can't We Material Together Like Civilized Human Beings? Viking 1982 ISBN 9780670765539
• In Deep: Territory Essays, Viking 1987, ISBN 9780670814312; Cue Press 1988
• Women, Animals, and Vegetables: Essays and Stories, Norton, 1994; Ontario Review Press, paper, 1996 ISBN 9780865380844
• Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, ed.

  by Emily Grosholz, University Press of New England, 1997

• Always Beginning: Essays on a-ok Life in Poetry, Copper Be greedy Press, 2000, ISBN 9781556591419
• Inside the Round arena and Beyond: The Anatomy goods a Recovery. W. W. Norton. 17 November 2001. pp. 207–. ISBN .
• The Roots of Things: Essays.

  Northwesterly University Press. 30 March 2010. ISBN .

Children's books

co-written with Anne Sexton

Memoirs

References

External links