And short the season : poems / Maxine Kumin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kumin, Maxine, 1925-2014.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

108 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Summary:

"A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is 'unforgettable, indispensable' (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind."--from publisher's description.

Contents:

I Whereof the Gift Is Small 19

The Path, the Chair 20

A Day's Work 24

Our Mantle 26

Purim and the Beetles of Our Lady 28

Discrete Activities 30

Indian Pipes 32

The Furtive Visit 34

Elegy Beginning with Half a Line from Ben Jonson 35

Rosie Speaks 37

The Luxury 38

II Ancient History in the Eye Center 43

Murder 45

Radford, Virginia, 1904 48

The Revisionist Dream 51

Taken Inside 52

The Bird, the Court of Common Pleas, the Czar 54

The Last Good War 56

The Standing Roast 57

Wellfleet, Cape Cod 58

No Place 60

National Velvet 62

III Old News 65

Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts I 66

Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts II 67

The Pre-trial Confinement of Private Bradley Manning 68

Sonnets Uncorseted 69

IV At the End 81

Xanthopsia 82

Howl Revisited 84

On Speaking Terms 85

Mourners, Onlookers, Gawkers 86

Seeing Things 89

The Women Return from Digging Roots in the Kalahari 90

The Last Word 91

Truth 92

V Ah, Poetry 95

William Carlos Williams 96

Provincetown, Cape Cod, 1963 98

The Day My Student Teaches Me That Life Is Not Art 99

Cabbages 100

Either Or 102

Going Down 103

Just Deserts 105

Pallas's Horse 106

This One 107

Allow Me 108.

ISBN:

9780393241006

0393241009

OCLC:

861335388