Maxine Kumin
Maxine Kumin
Kumin, Maxine
Reading Date: Wednesday, March 21, 1990
Full Reading-13139
Description:
Introduction by Lois Shelton.
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Reading Date: Wednesday, March 21, 1990
Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Series: Spring Reading Series
Sponsor(s): UA Poetry Center
Location(s): Modern Languages Auditorium
Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and novelist Maxine Kumin reads from poems written throughout her career. She opens the reading with a found poem generated from information about bear attacks, followed by two more poems about bear attacks. She also reads several poems in the persona of a male hermit, several poems from a cycle about an aging horse, and a piece called "The Excrement Poem."

- humor
- nature
- family
- elegy
- birds
- death
- horses
- father
- rhyme
- pulitzer prize winner
- narrative
- mother
- dogs
- god
- motherhood
- animals
- grief
- illness
- poet laureate
- travel
- friendship
- birth
- jesus
- elephant
- the body
- europe
- anne sexton
- bears
- persona poems
- found poems
- apostrophe
- switzerland
- brothers
- disability
- disease
- moose
- biographical
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