An edition of The roots of things (2010)

The roots of things

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The roots of things
Maxine Kumin, Maxine Kumin
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Northwestern University Press
Language
English
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194

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Subjects

History and criticism, American poetry, Collected works (single author, multi-form)

People

Maxine Kumin (1925-)

Times

20th century
Edition Availability
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The roots of things: essays
2010, Northwestern University Press
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Table of Contents

Taking root. The Singer sewing machine
Growing up on British books
Swift to its close
The horses of childhood
Homage to Polly Bunting
Radcliffe in the forties
Identity
Poets and poetry. The revision of Emily D.: notes on 'After the poetry reading'
On receiving the Frost medal
Brief speech at the Poetry Society of America's laureates' dinner
Celebrating Josephine Jacobsen, 1997 Frost medal winner
Introduction to Carolyn Kizer: perspectives on her life and work
Kiddielit with Anne Sexton
Cats in Zanzibar
Translations
Audience
Letter to a young writer
Notes on 'Pantoum, with swan'
The poet on the poem: contexts and connections
Taking a stand: if this be treason, make the most of it
Entry in poet's bookshelf
On 'Four poems about Jamaica,' by William Matthews
Remembering Peter Davison
On Jane Kenyon
On Karl Jay Shapiro
Carol Houck Smith, 1923-2008
Longfellow's antislavery poems
Introduction to Perched on nothing's branch: selected poems, by Attila Joszef
Foreword to Vive o muere, by Anne Sexton
Foreword to The complete love poems of May Swenson
Country living. Geese-go-south moon
Breeding horses
Foreword to Say this of horses
Beautiful soup
Spinach
The wings of winter
High ground
Bear
How we found our dog
Settled in at home.

Edition Notes

Collected essays, some previously published or delivered as speeches.

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Evanston, Ill

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811.54
Library of Congress
PS3521.U638 R66 2010, PS3521.U638R66 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 194 p.
Number of pages
194

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24534173M
ISBN 13
9780810126480
LCCN
2009037821
OCLC/WorldCat
318428629

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