And Short the Season: Poems

by Maxine Kumin

Book Overview

A poet of piercing revelations and arresting imagery, Kumin is "unforgettable, indispensable" (New York Times Book Review). In And Short the Season she muses on mortality: her own and that of the earth. Always deeply personal, always political, these poems blend myth and modernity, fecundity and death, and the violence and tenderness of humankind. From "Whereof the Gift Is Small" And short the season, first rubythroat in the fading lilacs, alyssum...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393241009
• ISBN13: 9780393241006
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"