[New-Poetry] Kumin profile

[Suzanne Baran]

So glad you sent this around. She's one of my favorites. There's a passage I
quote from her often:
"Our daughters and sons have burst from the marionette show leaving a tangle
of strings and gone into the unlit audience." - Maxine Kumin

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:45 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0415/p13s01-bogn.html
> Maxine Kumin, 'Writing is my salvation'
> Bouncing back after an accident, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet has
> renewed passion for 'poems that matter.'
> By Elizabeth Lund
> from the April 15, 2008 edition
>
> Page 1 of 2
> Three weeks ago, winter still clung to central New Hampshire, where poet
> Maxine Kumin and her husband, Victor, live on Pobiz Farm. The sky was gray,
> snow banks stood more than three feet tall, and the couple's long, dirt
> driveway was covered with several inches of white from a recent storm. A
> visiting reporter had to abandon her car 3/10s of a mile from the farmhouse.
>
>
> Maxine Kumin, whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize, noted the sky after
> leading her visitor into the living room. Then she turned her attention to
> Virgil, her energetic hound-mix, who jumped onto the sofa, onto her lap, and
> then onto her guest's lap. "Virgil has no manners," she explained with a
> shake of her head. "Pretend he isn't here; he's an invisible dog."
>
> The scene illustrated so much about Kumin, whose poems include many of the
> strays she has saved and whose spirit seems as indomitable as that of her
> "invisible" hound,
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"When you devote your life to achieving your goal, you will not be bothered
by shallow criticism. In fact nothing important can be accomplished if you
allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking over
your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. The key to
achievement is to move forward resolutely along your chosen path."

Daily Encouragement - Daisaku Ikeda
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