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Book Description: Viking, NY, 1982. First Edition. Uncorrected proof of
the first edition. Printed wraps. Publisher's notice laid in. Fragments
of publisher's torn blurb sheet taped to front wrap. Signed by Kumin on
the title page. Publisher's notice worn at top edge and at author name level. Very Good condition. Signed by
Author. Galley/Proof.
Born in Philadelphia,
Kumin, the daughter of Jewish parents, attended Catholic kindergarten
and lower schools. She received her B.A. in 1946 and her M.A. in 1948
from Radcliffe College.
In June 1946 she married Victor Kumin, an engineering consultant; they
have two daughters and a son. In 1957, she studied poetry with John
Holmes at the Boston Center for Adult Education. There she met Anne Sexton,
with whom she started a friendship that continued until Sexton's
suicide in 1974. Kumin taught English from 1958 to 1961 and 1965 to
1968 at Tufts University;
from 1961 to 1963 she was a scholar at the Radcliffe Institute for
Independent Study. She has also held appointments as a visiting
lecturer and poet in residence at many American colleges and
universities. Since 1976, she and her husband have lived on a farm in Warner, New Hampshire, where they breed Arabian and quarter horses.
Career
Kumin's many awards include the Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize for Poetry (1972), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1973) for Up Country, the Aiken Taylor Prize, the 1994 Poets' Prize (for Looking for Luck), an American Academy and Institute of Arts a Letters Award for excellence in literature (1980), an Academy of American Poets fellowship (1986), the 1999 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and six honorary degrees. In 1981-1982, she served as the poetry consultant to the Library of Congress.
Critics have compared Kumin with Elizabeth Bishop because of her meticulous observations, and with Robert Frost, for she frequently devotes her attention to the rhythms of life in rural New England. She has been grouped with confessional poets such as Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell.
But unlike the confessionalists, Kumin eschews high rhetoric and adopts
a plain style. Throughout her career Kumin has struck a balance between
her sense of life's transience and her fascination with the dense
physical presence of the world around her. She served as the 1985 judge
of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry and she selected Patricia Dobler's Talking To Strangers.
She currently teaches poetry in New England College's Low-Residency MFA Program.
Together with fellow-poet Carolyn Kizer,
she first served on and then resigned from the board of chancellors of
the Academy of American Poets, an act that galvanized the movement for
opening this august body to broader representation by women and
minorities.[2]
Bibliography
Poetry
Still To Mow, W. W. Norton & Company, 2007
Jack and Other New Poems, W.W. Norton Co., 2005
Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988, W.W. Norton Co., 2003
The Long Marriage, W.W.Norton Co., 2001, cloth, paper; finalist for
the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2002
Selected Poems 1960-1990, W.W. Norton Co., 1997 cloth; paper ; New York Times notable book of the year
Connecting the Dots, W.W. Norton Co.,1996 cloth, paper
Looking for Luck, W.W. Norton Co., 1992 cloth; paper
Nurture, Viking/ Penguin 1989, o. o. p.
The Long Approach, Viking /Penguin, 1985-6, o.o.p.
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief, New and Selected Poems, Viking/Penguin 1982, o. o. p.
The Retrieval System, Viking/Penguin, 1978, o.o.p.
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