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And short the season : poems / Maxine Kumin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]Edition: First EditionDescription: 108 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393241009 (hbk.)
  • 9780393241006 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Whereof the Gift Is Small -- The Path, the Chair -- A Day's Work -- Our Mantle -- Purim and the Beetles of Our Lady -- Discrete Activities -- Indian Pipes -- The Furtive Visit -- Elegy Beginning with Half a Line from Ben Jonson -- Rosie Speaks -- The Luxury -- II -- Ancient History in the Eye Center -- Murder -- Radford, Virginia, 1904 -- The Revisionist Dream -- Taken Inside -- The Bird, the Court of Common Pleas, the Czar -- The Last Good War -- The Standing Roast -- Wellfleet, Cape Cod -- No Place -- National Velvet -- III -- OldNews -- Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts I -- Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts II -- The Pre-trial Confinement of Private Bradley Manning -- Sonnets Uncorseted -- IV -- At the End -- Xanthopsia -- Howl Revisited -- On Speaking Terms -- Mourners, Onlookers, Gawkers -- Seeing Things -- The Women Return from Digging Roots in the Kalahari -- The Last Word -- Truth -- V -- Ah, Poetry -- William Carlos Williams -- Provincetown, Cape Cod, 1963 -- The Day My Student Teaches Me That Life Is Not Art -- Cabbages -- Either Or -- Going Down -- Just Deserts -- Pallas's Horse -- This One -- Allow Me
Summary: "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."--from publisher's description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

From "Whereof the Gift Is Small"

And short the season, first rubythroat

in the fading lilacs, alyssum in bloom,

a honeybee bumbling in the bleeding heart

on my gelding's grave while beetles swarm

him underground. Wet feet, wet cuffs,

little flecks of buttercup on my sneaker toes,

bluets, violets crowding out the tufts

of rich new grass the horses nose

and nibble like sleepwalkers held fast--

brittle beauty--might this be the last?

Whereof the Gift Is Small -- The Path, the Chair -- A Day's Work -- Our Mantle -- Purim and the Beetles of Our Lady -- Discrete Activities -- Indian Pipes -- The Furtive Visit -- Elegy Beginning with Half a Line from Ben Jonson -- Rosie Speaks -- The Luxury -- II -- Ancient History in the Eye Center -- Murder -- Radford, Virginia, 1904 -- The Revisionist Dream -- Taken Inside -- The Bird, the Court of Common Pleas, the Czar -- The Last Good War -- The Standing Roast -- Wellfleet, Cape Cod -- No Place -- National Velvet -- III -- OldNews -- Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts I -- Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts II -- The Pre-trial Confinement of Private Bradley Manning -- Sonnets Uncorseted -- IV -- At the End -- Xanthopsia -- Howl Revisited -- On Speaking Terms -- Mourners, Onlookers, Gawkers -- Seeing Things -- The Women Return from Digging Roots in the Kalahari -- The Last Word -- Truth -- V -- Ah, Poetry -- William Carlos Williams -- Provincetown, Cape Cod, 1963 -- The Day My Student Teaches Me That Life Is Not Art -- Cabbages -- Either Or -- Going Down -- Just Deserts -- Pallas's Horse -- This One -- Allow Me

"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."--from publisher's description.

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