UA Poetry Center
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and novelist Maxine Kumin reads from her then-recent collection Nurture (1989), together with poems written throughout her career, as well as two poems that would go on to be collected in her next book, Looking for Luck (1992). Many of the poems consider connections between animals and humans. Kumin also reads a series of three elegies to her longtime friend Anne Sexton.
Introduction by Lois Shelton.
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.
