And Short the Season Poems [Paperback]

A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Pulitzer Prize winner Maxine Kumin is unforgettable, indispensable (In her final collection&Kumin is as graceful and unsparing as ever, tenderly lamenting our violations against nature and each other.Reading [Kumins] poems is an experience of sitting with a friend, a wonderfully talented friend who can describe all of life, in a poem.Her poetry represented both an alertness to and an investment in the sanctified details of the natural world, a love of the music of the commonplace.Alongside her friend and collaborator Anne Sexton, [Kumin] embarked on a career that helped redefine what American poetry could be.Unlike many of her contemporaries, including Anne Sexton, Kumin knew how to trim the deadness around her, letting the life come through for decades& Short the season, but long the legacy.Exquisite pastorals of her New Hampshire farm mix with politics and echoes of past poets, possessing a directness that makes each piece necessary and vital.Filled with joy, sorrow, anger, mortality, politics and horses.From the Pulitzer Prizewinning poet, a stunning collection of poems that course with the rhythms of nature.