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LEADER: 02165cam a22002414a 4500
001 2009037821
003 DLC
005 20140211075226.0
008 090921s2010 ilu b 000 0 eng c
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020 $a9780810126480 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPS3521.U638$bR66 2010
082 04 $a811.54$222
100 1 $aKumin, Maxine,$d1925-2014.
245 14 $aThe roots of things :$bessays /$cMaxine Kumin.
260 $aEvanston, Ill. :$bNorthwestern University Press,$c2010.
300 $axi, 194 p.$c22 cm.
500 $aCollected essays, some previously published or delivered as speeches.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aTaking 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.
600 10 $aKumin, Maxine,$d1925-2014.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.