Women, Animals, & Vegetables: Essays and Stories by Maxine Kumin

Women, Animals, & Vegetables: Essays and Stories by Maxine Kumin

What happens when you leave your inhibitions at the door? When you're ready for something different, something that pushes your boundaries and makes your wildest, wettest fantasies come true? What would you do if no one was watching? Or if they were? Is there something you've always wanted to do but were too afraid to ask for? A bit of role play? A top to someone's bottom? That chance meeting that leads to unexpected pleasures?

Life is anything but ordinary when the lights go out and there are no rules to follow. This collection of stories by award winning authors offers fantasies as soft as silk and tough as leather. The only question is: How far will you go to make your deepest desires come true?

Maxine Kumin is the author of six collections of poetry, including Up Country (1973), which won the Pulitzer Prize, and The Retrieval System (1978). She's also published four novels and more than twenty children's books, demonstrating her literary flexibility. She has given poetry seminars at Columbia, Brandeis, and Princeton universities and is a popular poet reader at campuses across the country. Her vibrant chat in a series of interviews, her thorough assessment of literature in articles and reviews, and her broad good sense in lectures offered at Bread Loaf are all captured in this book. The tones of sadness and camaraderie we hear when Maxine Kumin writes about Anne Sexton are maybe the most poignant of all. Finally, we have the poet herself in her own words---the life lived---in a collection of essays taken from her experiences in the country.Poets on Poetry collects critical volumes by contemporary poets, putting together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new age.