Maxine Kumin
The Long Marriage
Poems
"Her poems become increasingly unforgettable, indispensable."—The New York Times Book Review
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 Poems 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."
Maxine Kumin lives on a horse farm in New Hampshire. Her Selected Poems: 1960-1990 was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her most recent award was the Ruth Lily Prize.
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Also Available:
Inside the Halo and Beyond
Selected Poems
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