Up Country: Poems of New England, New and Selected

Maxine Kumin

Harper & Row, 1972 - Poetry - 83 pages

The special world of rural New England is the focus of Maxine Kumin's new volume of poems. A delightful gift for all who love this region, it is also a fine collection of new and selected pastoral poems by a poet whose work has been widely published and praised. There are forty-one poems and seventeen striking drawings by Barbara Swan. --Harper & RowDonated by Wendy Larsen, 8/2011Signed by the author.

Contents

• The Hermit Wakes to Bird Sounds: 3
• The Hermit Celebrates the Basswood Tree: 10
• The Hermit Reviews His Simples: 16
• The Horses: 22
• Woodchucks: 28
• In These Signs: 34
• For a Shetland Pony Brood Mare Who Died in: 40
• The Presence: 42
• Country House: 56
• Morning Swim: 70

About the author

Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia in 1925. She received a BA and a MA from Radcliffe College. In the 1950s, she enrolled in a poetry writing course at the Boston Center for Adult Education. The course led to the publication of poems in Harper's and The New Yorker. Her first collection of poems, Halfway, was published in 1961. Her other poetry collections include Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010, Still to Mow, and And Short the Season. She received several awards including the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Robert Frost Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize for Up Country: Poems of New England. She also wrote four novels, short stories, a memoir entitled Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, essay collections, and children's books. She died of natural causes on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Up Country: Poems of New England, New and Selected; Volume 212 of Mémoire des siècles; Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
• Author: Maxine Kumin
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Harper & Row, 1972
• ISBN: 0060124733, 9780060124731
• Length: 83 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / General