Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988

by Maxine Kumin

Poems ranging from quiet, pensive pieces to studies of anguish and loss, the realism of youth, romanticism, and the fortitude of nature, are reflected with insight, strength, passion, and understanding, in a refreshing new look at everyday experience and emotion.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Hardcover

First published May 20, 2003

About the author

Maxine Kumin's 17th poetry collection, published in the spring of 2010, is Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010. Her awards include the Pulitzer and Ruth Lilly Poetry Prizes, the Poets’ Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost Medals. A former US poet laureate, she and her husband lived on a farm in New Hampshire. Maxine Kumin died in 2014.

Reviews

[R.C.]

I might like something else from this author more. Technically I like the wordsmithery, but the poems' subjects often left me flat. A good deal of them were very personal, which made me often feel like I was missing the point.

[Marty]

I celebrate new author discoveries.

And this voice, new to me, is a great find.