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Kumin, Maxine. "You Are In Bear Country." The Long Approach. New York: Penguin, 1986.
"In the Park." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"Encounter in August." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"Morning Swim." The Privilege. New York: Harper & Row, 1965.
"The Hermit Wakes to Bird Sounds." Up Country: Poems of New England, New and Selected. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
"Amanda Dreams She has Died and Gone to the Elysian Fields." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"Excrement Poem." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"Heaven as Anus." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"The Jesus Infection." House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate. New York: Viking, 1975.
"Splitting Wood at Six Above." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"On Being Asked to Write a Poem in Memory of Anne Sexton." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"The Green Well." Looking for Luck. New York: Norton, 1992.
"Birthday Poem." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"Sunbathing on a Rooftop in Berkeley." The Retrieval System. New York: Viking, 1978.
"We Stood There Singing." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"The Man of Many L's." Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief: New and Selected Poems. New York: Penguin, 1982.
"Appetite." The Long Approach. New York: Penguin, 1986.
"My Elusive Guest." The Long Approach. New York: Penguin, 1986.
"Custodian." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"Catchment." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"Sleeping with Animals." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"Nurture." Nurture. New York: Penguin, 1989.
"Looking for Luck in Bangkok." Looking for Luck. New York: Norton, 1992.
Maxine Kumin reads from several collections including her first book, Halfway (1961), as well as Upcountry (1972) and House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate (1975). She reads poems on themes such as animals, dreams, water, and the body, as well as two elegies to her close friend Anne Sexton, and a series of seven riddles.
In this lecture, Rachel Zucker discusses risk, shame, and questions of gender and privilege in relationship to confessional poetry.
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