Always beginning : essays on a life in poetry

Always beginning : essays on a life in poetry / Maxine Kumin.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet writes about her life, the creative process, and the work of other poets.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kumin, Maxine, 1925-2014 (Author)
Corporate Author: Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2000]
Subjects:
Kumin, Maxine, > 1925-2014.
Poets, American > 20th century > Biography.
Poetics > History > 20th century.
Poetry.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Excerpts from a June Journal. Beans. June 1, 1991: Sleeping Late. June 16, 1991: Final Foal. Journal Entry, PoBiz, Texas. Notes from My Journal, Kyoto, December 1984
  • Part Two. Interstices. Swimming and Writing. Motherhood and Poetics. October 4, 1995. For Anne at Passover. Recitations. First Loves
  • Part Three. An Appreciation of Marianne Moore's Selected Letters. This Curious Silent Unrepresented Life. Josephine Jacobsen. Back to the Fairground: Mona Van Duyn. A Postcard from the Volcano. Essay on Robert Frost
  • Part Four. Trochee, Trimeter, and the MRI: On A Shropshire Lad. Gymnastics: The Villanelle. A Way of Staying Sane. Word for Word: "Poem for My Son" Scrubbed Up and Sent to School
  • Part Five. Keynote Address, PEN-New England, April 11, 1999. Premonitory Shiver. Two Junes
  • Part Six
  • Poems. For Anne at Passover / Maxine Kumin. A Postcard from the Volcano / Wallace Stevens. Xxvii / A.E. Housman. One Art / Elizabeth Bishop. The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views / Maxine Kumin.

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