Kumin Maxine : Our Ground Time Here Will be Brief by Maxine Kumin

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.