After Love
Maxine Kumin, “After Love” from Selected Poems, 1960-1990. Copyright © 1970 by Maxine Kumin. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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Poet Maxine W. Kumin b. 1925
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love, Relationships
Poetic Terms Free Verse
Biography
An enduring presence in American poetry, Maxine Kumin’s career has spanned over half a century. She has been the recipient of prestigious awards such as the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award. She was the poetry consultant for the Library of Congress in 1981-1982, and has taught at many of the country’s most prestigious universities, including MIT, . . .
Poems by Maxine W. Kumin
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SUBJECT Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love, Relationships
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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