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Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She has published eleven books of poetry, including Connecting the Dots (W. W. Norton, 1996); Looking for Luck (1992), which received the Poets' Prize; Nurture...
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1979. Introduced by Jane Shore. Several years after she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country, and just preceding her tenure as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, Maxine Kumin gave this reading for the Academy. Rich with beautiful poems of the animal and human world, this selection ranges from Halfway to The Retrieval System, including "Woodchucks," "Fräulein Reads Instructive Rhymes," "My Father's Neckties," "The Retrieval System," and many others. Length: 54 min.
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