Still to Mow

by Maxine Kumin

Book Overview

Here Maxine Kumin's signature nature poems are shaken up and invigorated by the darker, human realities. She focuses our attention on the pleasures of horse-keeping with poems such as "The Zen of Mucking Out," then exhorts us to "Please Pay Attention," decrying Dick Cheney's "canned hunting / where you don't stay to pluck / the feathers." With equanimity, Kumin faces the disappointments and joys of sixty years of marriage--ending with the unspoken...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393065499
• ISBN13: 9780393065497
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"