{"id":23329,"date":"2014-02-08T08:04:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T15:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=23329"},"modified":"2014-02-10T10:18:10","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T17:18:10","slug":"r-i-p-maxine-kumin-1925%e2%80%932014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2014\/02\/08\/r-i-p-maxine-kumin-1925%e2%80%932014\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P Maxine Kumin – (1925\u20132014)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Poetry Foundation –Maxine Kumin<\/a> (1925\u20132014) <\/p>\n

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    Angels from streets of gold
    \nbenignly looked on this,
    \nGod\u2019s wonders to behold.
    \nBoth sides stood by unhorsed
    \nwhile Nature ran its course.<\/p>\n

    Read the poem \u201cGoing to Jerusalem\u201d by Maxine Kumin (Paris Review) <\/a> (see a nice photo montage) <\/p>\n

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    From story: ” …Ms. Sexton\u2019s suicide shook Ms. Kumin deeply. \u201cA month after your death I wear your blue jacket,\u201d she wrote in a poem, \u201cHow It Is.\u201d It continues:<\/p>\n

    The dog at the center of my life recognizes<\/p>\n

    you\u2019ve come to visit, he\u2019s ecstatic.<\/p>\n

    In the left pocket, a hole.<\/p>\n

    In the right, a parking ticket<\/p>\n

    delivered up last August on Bay State Road.<\/p>\n

    In my heart, a scatter like milkweed,<\/p>\n

    a flinging from the pods of the soul. ”<\/p>\n

    via Lilyaradiohead <\/a><\/p>\n

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    Maxine Kumin dies at 88 <\/a><\/p>\n

    Ms. Kumin\u2019s style defied tidy categorization. Though her poems and essays centered on the New England countryside, she trafficked in none of the sentimental effusions of traditional pastoral poets. Her dark, ironic poem \u201cHighway Hypothesis\u201d made clear just what she thought of such unexamined romanticizing:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Bucophilia, I call it \u2014<\/p>\n

    nostalgia over a pastoral vista \u2014<\/p>\n

    where for all I know the farmer<\/p>\n

    who owns it or rents it just told his<\/p>\n

    wife he\u2019d kill her if she left him and<\/p>\n

    she did and he did and now here come<\/p>\n

    the auctioneer, the serious bidders<\/p>\n

    and an ant-train of gawking onlookers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Poetry Foundation –Maxine Kumin (1925\u20132014) Angels from streets of gold benignly looked on this, God\u2019s wonders to behold. Both sides stood by unhorsed while Nature ran its course. Read the poem \u201cGoing to Jerusalem\u201d by Maxine Kumin (Paris Review) (see a nice photo montage) From story: ” …Ms. Sexton\u2019s suicide shook Ms. Kumin deeply. \u201cA … <\/p>\n

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