Kumin maxine 1925 2014 (3 risultati)
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1989., 1989
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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 63 pages ; 21 cm. ; ISBN 9780140586190, 0140586199 ; OCLC 19352352 ; LCCn 89031129 ; LOC No PS3521.U638 N87 1989b ; "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin . 1989"--T.p. verso. ; Stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Halfway -- Fra?ulein reads instructive rhymes… -- 400 meter freestyle -- Casablanca -- A hundred nights -- On being asked to write a poem for the centenary of the Civil War -- The first rain of Spring -- Privilege -- Morning swim -- Sisyphus -- The pawnbroker -- The appointment -- Quarry pigeon cove -- Prothalamion -- Purgatory -- Joppa diary : January 25th, May 10th, June 15th, September 22nd -- The Nightmare Factory -- The presence -- The vealers -- Watering trough -- Hello hello Henry -- Making the Jam without you -- For my great grandfather : message long overdue -- We are -- After love -- The nightmare factory -- Up country -- The hermit wakes to bird sounds -- The hermit meets the skunk -- the hermit picks berries -- Creatures -- Stones -- The dreamer the dream -- Beans -- Mud -- Woodchucks -- House bridge fountain gate -- History lesson -- the thirties revisited -- Sperm -- The deaths of the uncles -- Life's work -- The Jesus infection -- Living alone with Jesus -- To swim to believe -- The selling of the slaves -- In the root cellar -- The mummies -- Song for seven parts of the body -- Heaven as anus -- Young nun at bread loaf -- Amanda is shod -- Amanda dreams she has died and gone to the Elysian Fields -- The agnostic speaks to her horse's hoof eyes -- Thinking of death and dogfood -- The retrieval system -- The longing to be saved -- Address to the angels -- My father's neckties -- Progress report -- The food chain -- The Henry Manley blues -- Birthday poem -- Changing the children -- Seeing the bones -- Sunbathing on a rooftop in Berkeley -- The envelope -- Body and soul a meditation -- How it is -- Splitting wood at six above -- Late snow -- The excrememnt poem -- In April in Princeton -- July against hunger -- The survival poem -- Territory -- How it goes on -- Our ground time here will be brief -- Rejoicing with Henry -- Henry Manley looks back -- Feeding time -- In the pea patch -- Relearning the language of April -- Continuum a love poem -- Family reunion -- Leaving my daughter's house -- February -- Itinerary of an obsession -- Apostrophe to a dead friend -- In memoriam of P.W. Jr. 1921 -- 1980 : the unfinished storey, the incest dream, Out of the body travel, retrospect in the kitchen, the man of many L's -- You are in bear country -- Atlantic City -- The chain -- Introducing the fathers -- Appetite -- Grandchild -- Caring : a dream -- Shopping in Ferney with Voltaire -- At a private showing in 1982 -- In the absence of bliss -- Video cuisine -- How to survive nuclear war -- Getting through -- Out in it -- My elusive guest -- Shelling Jacobs cattle beans -- After the harvest -- The long approach -- Nurture -- With the caribou -- In warm rooms before blue light -- Thoughts of saiving the manatee -- Repent -- Homage to binsey poplars -- Custodian -- Bringing back the trumpeter swan -- The accolade of animals -- Sleeping with animals -- Encounter in August -- Catchment -- On reading an old baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron -- The festung Salzburg -- Night launch -- Photograph Maryland Agricultural College livestock show -- Photograph U.S. Army Flying School College Park Maryland -- On being asked to write a poem in memory of Anne Sexton -- In the park -- Marianne my mother and me -- A calling -- Turning the garden in middle age -- Reviewing the summer and winter calendar of the next life -- Grappling in the central blue -- The Bangkok gong -- We stood there singing -- Distance -- A game of monopoly in Chavannes ; In these rich, lyrical poems Maxine Kumin brings her perceptive eye and imagination to the contemplation of the natural world. ; FINE. Book.
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Bucknell University : Press of Appletree Alley, Lewisburg, Pa, 1984
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Da: Fine Editions Ltd, Willow Street, PA, U.S.A.Fine Editions Ltd
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Limited Edition. First Edition, No. 27 of 28 copies printed on mould-made Rives, from a total edition of 150. Royal 8vo (261 x 174mm): 47,[1]pp, with linoleum engravings in color by Barnard Taylor. Publisher's tan quarter-calf over beige paper-covered pictorial boards, spine lettered in gold, tan end… papers, title page in red and black, original unprinted acetate jacket. Signed by Kumin at the colophon. Spine lightened a degree or two, top edge briefly spotted, else Fine. Kumin was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1973, and served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 19811982. She is thought to be the last person to have seen the poet Anne Sexton alive; the two were close friends, and had had lunch the day of Sexton's suicide, in 1974. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
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Da: Herbst-Auktionen, Detmold, GermaniaHerbst-Auktionen
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Aggiungi al carrelloTHE NIGHTMARE FACTORY New Poems by Maxine Kumin Harper & Row Publishers, York Composition Company, New York 1. Auflage 1970, ERSTAUSGABE, 94 SS. Pb. 8°, schön erhalten - mit eigenhändiger Widmung, Empfehlung, Datum, Unterschrift in Tinte signiert "For Frau Toussaud with warm good wishes MAXINE KUMIN June 26, 1970".
