And short the season
Subtitle: poems
By: Maxine Kumin
Contributors: Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9780393241006
Subjects: Poetry; American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is 'unforgettable, indispensable' (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind."--Publisher's description.
Table of contents: title: I; title: Whereof the gift Is small; title: The path, the chair; title: A day's work; title: Our mantle; title: Purim and the beetles of Our Lady; title: Discrete activities; title: Indian pipes; title: The furtive visit; title: Elegy beginning with half a line from Ben Jonson; title: Rosie speaks; title: The luxury; title: II; title: Ancient history in the eye center; title: Murder; title: Radford, Virginia, 1904; title: The revisionist dream; title: Taken inside; title: The bird, the Court of Common Pleas, the Czar; title: The last good war; title: The standing roast; title: Wellfleet, Cape Cod; title: No place; title: National Velvet; title: III; title: Old news; title: Red tape and kangaroo courts I; title: Red tape and kangaroo courts II; title: The pre-trial confinement of Private Bradley Manning; title: Sonnets uncorseted; title: IV; title: At the end; title: Xanthopsia; title: Howl revisited; title: On speaking terms; title: Mourners, onlookers, gawkers; title: Seeing things; title: The women return from digging roots in the Kalahari; title: The last word; title: Truth; title: V; title: Ah, poetry; title: William Carlos Williams; title: Provincetown, Cape Cod, 1963; title: The day my student teaches me that life is not art; title: Cabbages; title: Either or; title: Going down; title: Just deserts; title: Pallas's horse; title: This one; title: Allow me.