Where I Live: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010

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Here is a landmark collection celebrating the remarkable range of Maxine Kumin, one of America’s greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from five previous books, together with twenty-three new poems that pay homage to Kumin’s farm life and also to poets of the past.

from “The Taste of Apple”

I could hardly see as he hoisted the great swaying body aloft

and bore it ...

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Overview

Here is a landmark collection celebrating the remarkable range of Maxine Kumin, one of America’s greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from five previous books, together with twenty-three new poems that pay homage to Kumin’s farm life and also to poets of the past.

from “The Taste of Apple”

I could hardly see as he hoisted the great swaying body aloft

and bore it across the road to the hole and in the cold dark I poured

a libation of apple juice for the earth to welcome his corpse—

some drops spilled on his chestnut flank and some dribbled

on his cheek and splashed onto his yellow teeth as he lay

deep on one side and my hand shook—I could hardly see—

rocking my grief back and forth over this kind death

the taste of apple wasting in his mouth.

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David Kirby
…deeply satisfying…Kumin's casual mastery of beat and rhyme suggest her debt to the poets who preceded her. As Emerson knew, poetry is not a terminus but a journey toward a destination never reached—it's the journey that counts. Poems like "Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year" unroll with a deceptive smoothness that brings to mind Freeman Dyson's description of the Nobelist Paul Dirac's papers on quantum mechanics: "Exquisitely carved marble statues falling out of the sky, one after another."
—The New York Times

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  • ISBN-13: 9780393076493
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 4/12/2010
  • Pages: 235
  • Sales rank: 822,751
  • Product dimensions: 6.50 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Maxine Kumin is a former poet laureate of the United States. She lives in Warner, New Hampshire.

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  • Posted September 18, 2010

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    Maxine Kumin seems like a sweet older woman. Harmless, it would appear. After all, she begins her book of poetry with a focus on nature, and makes insightful observations on little things that are often overlooked. For example, in "Lore", she talks about a book she's read about blue jays, and how many acorns they ingest each season. She describes the oak trees that result from the blue jays losses, but takes notice of an even more interesting thought: who is the person, "an aspiring Ph.D." that actually counts these and compiles such data? It's that little bit of twist, from observing nature to questioning a source that make her unique, and makes you realize this is not a simple collection of pretty words. Most of all, as you continue reading Where I Live, you see that she isn't as harmless as you might suspect.

    Her topics vary greatly and her observations are often are anything but sweet. In talking about Iraq, she doesn't back away from revealing the discrepancies between the suffering caused by liberators and a religious leader claiming there is a "spiritual value of suffering". She concludes that the sun comes up, "staining the sky with indifference". She also contrasts the ideals of the Geneva Convention with vice-presidents and Supreme Court justices who engage in what she calls "canned hunting". In "Please Pay Attention as the Ethics Have Changed", she wonders what kind of Humane Society (a word play on "human" society) would permit such cruelty to an animal (or moreso, to a person). From Daniel Pearl's tragic death to contaminated drinking water, she reveals her heart in her words.

    She also speaks of stray dogs and abandoned cats with great feeling, and you get the impression that it isn't simply the immediate sadness that she's getting at...she's driving at the attitudes that make people shut their heart up to others. And while sometimes we may stereotype a poet as distant and focused on things beyond real life, she shows she's firmly planted in the here and now. In "The Chambermaids in the Marriot in Midmorning", she finds another life in their chatter:

    "Behind my "Do not disturb" sign I go wherever they go
    sorely tried by their menfolk, their husbands, lovers or sons,
    who have jobs or have lost them, who drink and run around,
    who total their cars and are maimed, or lie idle in traction...


    I think how static my life is with its careful speeches and classes
    and how I admire the women who daily clean up my messes,
    who are never done scrubbing..."

    The contents are divided into sections: New Poems, Looking for Luck, Connecting the Dots, The Long Marriage, Jack and Other New Poems, and Still to Mow. Simple chores, farm work, famous women authors, childbirth, the Red Sox, misbehaving pets, redemption, corporate greed, and travel all are portrayed as she sees them, not sugar-coated nor politicized. The collection as a whole feels like a book of sage advice from a favored aunt-the feisty one-the one that sometimes says what you don't want to hear but who you listen to anyway. And while they are considered poetry, the verses often read with the detail you'd find in a short story.

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