{"product_id":"always-beginning-essays-on-a-life-in-poetry-9781556591419","title":"Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlways Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e by Kumin, Maxine. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781556591419.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her essays, as with her Pultizer Prize-winning poetry, Maxine Kumin is equally at ease musing over her garden or discussing poetic form, raising horses or critiquing the work of other poets. For Kumin, poetry is inseparable from daily life. Whether remembering the early days of courtship with her husband (who then worked at Los Alamos during the first nuclear tests) or observing a grandchild learning to swim, poetry is a natural part of the discussion, as when, during an MRI, she recounts the healing role of memorized poems: \"Lying in my MRI tomb and doggedly reciting the poem against the terrible rapping, I realized what saved me...\"\n\"Maxine Kumins practical yet sensual New England reflections are a gift to any lover of the country.\"-New York Times Book Review\n\"Kumin, bless her heart, just gets better and better.\"-Library Journal\nIn addition to twelve volumes of poetry, Maxine Kumin has published books of essays, short stories, and novels, and collaborated on four childrens books with the late Anne Sexton. The recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, she has also served as the Poet Laureate and was, until her recent controversial resignation, a chancellor at the Academy of American Poets. She lives with her husband, Victor, on a farm in central New Hampshire.\nTable of Contents\nPart One\nExcerpts from a June Journal\nBeans\nJune 1, 1991: Sleeping Late\nJune 16, 1991: Final Foal\nJournal Entry, PoBiz, Texas\nNotes from My Journal, Kyoto, December 1984\nPart Two\nInterstices\nSwimming and Writing\nMotherhood and Poetics\nOctober 4, 1995\nFor Anne at Passover\nRecitations\nFirst Loves\nPart Three\nAn Appreciation of Marianne Moores Selected Letters\nThis Curious Silent Unrepresented Life\nJosephine Jacobsen\nBack to the Fairground: Mona Van Duyn\nA Postcard from the Volcano\nEssay on Robert Frost\nPart Four\nTrochee, Trimeter, and the MRI: On A Shropshire Lad\nGymnastics: The Villanelle\nA Way of Staying Sane\nWord for Word: \"Poem for My Son\"\nScrubbed Up and Sent to School\nPart Five\nKeynote Address, PEN-New Eng\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44424535703605,"sku":"ByrdShop_1556591411","price":59.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781556591419_ca884204-6e05-44a9-8913-bd0cb1f601f8.jpg?v=1784177289","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/always-beginning-essays-on-a-life-in-poetry-9781556591419","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}