TY - BOOK AU - Kumin,Maxine TI - And short the season: poems SN - 0393241009 (hbk.) PY - 2014///] CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - American poetry KW - Poetry N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -