Maxine Kumin (1925–2014)
Autore di Selected Poems 1960-1990
Sull'Autore
Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She received a BA and a MA from Radcliffe College. In the 1950s, she enrolled in a poetry writing course at the Boston Center for Adult Education. The course led to the publication of poems in Harper's and The New Yorker. Her first collection of poems, mostra altro Halfway, was published in 1961. Her other poetry collections include Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, Still to Mow, and And Short the Season. She received several awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: Poems of New England. She also wrote four novels, short stories, a memoir entitled Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, essay collections, and children's books. She died of natural causes on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: www.maxinekumin.com/
Opere di Maxine Kumin
Sebastian and the dragon 3 copie
More eggs of things 2 copie
More Eggs of Things 2 copie
The privilege 1 copia
On Digging Out Old Lilacs 1 copia
Kumin, Maxine Archive 1 copia
Long Marriage 1 copia
When Grandmother Was Young 1 copia
Selected Poems 1 copia
Paul Bunyan 1 copia
Opere correlate
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Collaboratore — 452 copie
Rediscoveries II: Important Writers Select Their Favorite Works of Neglected Fiction (1988) — Collaboratore — 30 copie
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Collaboratore — 11 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 11, July 1980 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Altri nomi
- Winokur, Maxine (birth name)
- Data di nascita
- 1925-06-06
- Data di morte
- 2014-02-06
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Warner, New Hampshire, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Newton, Massachusetts, USA
- Istruzione
- Radcliffe College (AB, AM - Comparative Literature)
- Attività lavorative
- poet
novelist
children's book author
essayist
short-story writer
teacher - Relazioni
- Sexton, Anne (friend, collaborator)
- Organizzazioni
- New England College
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1999)
Frost Medal (2006)
Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1985)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1980)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1981-1982)
Aiken Taylor Award (1995) (mostra tutto 7)
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1967)
Utenti
Recensioni
The Microscope di Maxine Kumin
Small, short book, charmingly illustrated by Arnold Lobel. Written in simple verse, this book tells about Anton Leeuwenhoek, who created his own version of the microscope and used it to see into the fascinating world of microscopic life.
Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.
Charming, colorful illustrations accompany mostly short poems by Kunin. Various rhyme schemes are represented. Good as a resource.
During a horse and carriage accident Kumin fractured her neck in two places (C1 and C2). She shouldn't have survived the accident. 95% of the population with similar injuries do not. Doctors went on to tell her that 95% percent of the people who do survive that kind of Type II break are irreparably damaged; paralyzed for life. Kumin defied the odds and not only survived but gained nearly 100% percent mobility. Inside the Halo is a memoir about that journal back to near-normalcy. It is a story of courage and acceptance. Kumin's courage to fight through a long and agonizing period of recovery and acceptance that some scars, mental and physical, remain.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 64
- Opere correlate
- 33
- Utenti
- 1,286
- Popolarità
- #19,936
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 22
- ISBN
- 80
- Preferito da
- 5