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Where I Live: New Selected Poems 1990-2010

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Here is a landmark collection celebrating the remarkable range of Maxine Kumin, one of America’s greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from five previous books, together with twenty-three new poems that pay homage to Kumin’s farm life and also to poets of the past.

from “The Taste of Apple”

I could hardly see as he hoisted the great swaying body aloft

and bore it across the road to the hole and in the cold dark I poured

a libation of apple juice for the earth to welcome his corpse—

some drops spilled on his chestnut flank and some dribbled

on his cheek and splashed onto his yellow teeth as he lay

deep on one side and my hand shook—I could hardly see—

rocking my grief back and forth over this kind death

the taste of apple wasting in his mouth.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: April 12, 2010

ISBN: 0393076490

ISBN 13: 9780393076493

Where I Live: New Selected Poems 1990-2010

4/5 ( ratings)

Here is a landmark collection celebrating the remarkable range of Maxine Kumin, one of America’s greatest living poets. Where I Live gathers poems from five previous books, together with twenty-three new poems that pay homage to Kumin’s farm life and also to poets of the past.

from “The Taste of Apple”

I could hardly see as he hoisted the great swaying body aloft

and bore it across the road to the hole and in the cold dark I poured

a libation of apple juice for the earth to welcome his corpse—

some drops spilled on his chestnut flank and some dribbled

on his cheek and splashed onto his yellow teeth as he lay

deep on one side and my hand shook—I could hardly see—

rocking my grief back and forth over this kind death

the taste of apple wasting in his mouth.

Language: English

Pages: 256

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Release: April 12, 2010

ISBN: 0393076490

ISBN 13: 9780393076493

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