Maxine Kumin

The Long Marriage

"The Long Marriage could be the best book of poems [Kumin] has yet published."—Henry Taylor, Washington Times

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.

"Her poems become increasingly unforgettable, indispensable."—The New York Times Book Review