Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010

<p><strong>“The power that Kumin draws from and brings to literature is potent and seemingly inexhaustible.”―<em>Booklist</em></strong></p> 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.<br /><br /> from “The Taste of Apple”<br />      <em>I could hardly see as he hoisted the great swaying body aloft<br />      and bore it across the road to the hole and in the cold dark I poured<br />      a libation of apple juice for the earth to welcome his corpse―<br />      some drops spilled on his chestnut flank and some dribbled<br />      on his cheek and splashed onto his yellow teeth as he lay<br />      deep on one side and my hand shook―I could hardly see―<br />      rocking my grief back and forth over this kind death<br />      the taste of apple wasting in his mouth.</em>