My writing time needs to surround itself with empty stretches, or at least unpeopled ones, for the writing takes place in an area of suspension as in a hanging nest that is almost entirely encapsulated.
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The… - Maxine Kumin
I would not recommend poetry as a career. In the first place, it's impossible in this time and place - in this culture - to make poetry a career. The…
- Maxine Kumin
Everything pays for growing tame. - Maxine Kumin
Everything pays for growing tame.
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach… - Maxine Kumin
To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach…
Cherish your wilderness. - Maxine Kumin
Cherish your wilderness.
The time on either side of now stands fast. - Maxine Kumin
The time on either side of now stands fast.
Love, we are a small pond. - Maxine Kumin
Love, we are a small pond.
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going. - Maxine Kumin
Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.
Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P? - Maxine Kumin
Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters. - Maxine Kumin
It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.
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