Maxine Kumin
American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country in 1973 and was a close friend of Anne Sexton. Her verse celebrates the natural world of New Hampshire with exactness and grace.
Works
- HalfwayNarrative poems on marriage, desire, and domestic life
- The Privilege
- The Nightmare FactoryPsychological poems exploring nightmares and surreal interior landscapes
- Up CountryRural poems celebrating New England farmland and nature observation
- Connecting the DotsEssays on poetry, nature, aging, and family memoir