To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and Country Living

by Maxine Kumin

University of Michigan Press, 1980
Paper: 978-0-472-06306-2
Library of Congress Classification PS3521.U638Z475 1979
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.1

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Kumin reflects on the process of writing poetry and on life in the country

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Maxine Kumin is the author of six books of poetry including Up Country, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973, and The Retrieval System, published in 1978. In addition, she has shown her literary versatility in publishing four novels and more than twenty children's books. She is a popular reader of poems at colleges across the country and has conducted poetry workshops at Columbia, Brandeis, and Princeton universities. In this book, we catch her lively conversation in a series of interviews, her thoughtful assessment of literature in articles and reviews, and her ranging good sense in lectures delivered at Bread Loaf. Perhaps most moving of all are the accents of grief and friendship we hear when Maxine Kumin writes about Anne Sexton. Finally, in a group of essays drawn from her experiences in the country, we have the poet herself in her own words---the life lived.

Poets on Poetry collects critical books by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

I.
Interviews

With Virginia Elson and Beverlee Hughes

With Joan Norris

With Martha George Meek

At Interlochen

With Karla Hammond

II.
Essays on Poems, Poets, Poetics

On Howard Nemerov's Journal of the Fictive Life

“Provide, Provide”

Poetry Bound to Delight

Reminiscence Delivered at Memorial Service for Anne Sexton in Marsh Chapel, Boston University

Sexton's The Awful Rowing Toward God

A Friendship Remembered

The Making of “Mother Rosarine”

A Questionnaire

Kumin on Kumin: The Tribal Poems

III.
Three Lectures on Poetry

Closing the Door

Coming Across: Establishing the Intent of a Poem

Four Kinds of I

IV.
The Place Where I Live

Estivating–1973

Wintering Over

Bringing up Boomerang

Journal–Late Winter-Spring 1978

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