The roots of things
Subtitle: essays
By: Maxine Kumin.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810126480
Subjects: Kumin, Maxine, -- 1925-; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Collected essays, some previously published or delivered as speeches.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Taking root. The Singer sewing machine; title: Growing up on British books; title: Swift to its close; title: The horses of childhood; title: Homage to Polly Bunting; title: Radcliffe in the forties; title: Identity; title: Poets and poetry. The revision of Emily D.: notes on 'After the poetry reading'; title: On receiving the Frost medal; title: Brief speech at the Poetry Society of America's laureates' dinner; title: Celebrating Josephine Jacobsen, 1997 Frost medal winner; title: Introduction to Carolyn Kizer: perspectives on her life and work; title: Kiddielit with Anne Sexton; title: Cats in Zanzibar; title: Translations; title: Audience; title: Letter to a young writer; title: Notes on 'Pantoum, with swan'; title: The poet on the poem: contexts and connections; title: Taking a stand: if this be treason, make the most of it; title: Entry in poet's bookshelf; title: On 'Four poems about Jamaica,' by William Matthews; title: Remembering Peter Davison; title: On Jane Kenyon; title: On Karl Jay Shapiro; title: Carol Houck Smith, 1923-2008; title: Longfellow's antislavery poems; title: Introduction to Perched on nothing's branch: selected poems, by Attila Joszef; title: Foreword to Vive o muere, by Anne Sexton; title: Foreword to The complete love poems of May Swenson; title: Country living. Geese-go-south moon; title: Breeding horses; title: Foreword to Say this of horses; title: Beautiful soup; title: Spinach; title: The wings of winter; title: High ground; title: Bear; title: How we found our dog; title: Settled in at home.