Telling the Barn Swallow
Subtitle: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: January 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780874517842
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry; Kumin, Maxine - Poems & Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; American - General; Kumin, Maxine; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; Criticism and interpretation; 1925-; Kumin, Maxine,
Description: Despite a distinguished resume that includes a Pulitzer Prize and appointments as consultant to the Library of Congress, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and New Hampshire Poet Laureate, Maxine Kumin and her work remain relatively unexamined by contemporary critics. This collection fills that gap through analyses by her fellow poets of topics like Kumin's diction and prosody, her literary forebears, and characteristic thematic patterns.

Also included are poems, some first published here, to or about Maxine Kumin.