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...."
- Author
- Maxine Kumin
- Format
- hardcover
- Pages
- 96
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton Company
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780393065497
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2007
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