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Still to Mow

Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as "The Zen of Mucking Out," then exhorts us to "Please Pay Attention," decrying Dick Cheney's "canned hunting / where you don't stay to pluck / the feathers." With equanimity, Kumin faces the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage — ending with the unspoken question of "Which of us will go down first...."

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 96
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780393065497
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2007