Up Country

Name: Up Country
Author: Maxine Kumin

by Maxine Kumin

Rural poems celebrating New England farmland and nature observation

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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.

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