Connecting the Dots: Poems

by Maxine Kumin

A collection of poems with the theme of change and continuity. The poems chronicle the bounty of summer, the cycle of seasons, and memories of lost friends. Maxine Kumin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1973.

Genres: Poetry

86 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

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

[Patricia N. McLaughlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Many of these poems, unusually prosaic (notice the paragraph-length stanzas), seem better suited for a different literary genre, perhaps memoir (“Letters,” “New Year’s Eve, 1959”) or creative nonfiction (“In Praise of the New Transfer Station,” “Down East News Item”).

Favorite Poems:
“Beans Beans Beans”
“The Riddle of Noah”

[Megan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A couple really nice ones.

[Tara Betts]

Stunning crown of sonnets. I also like the poem about beans and her grandson.