#maxine kumin

[bones-ivy-breath]

How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton, from Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems

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[derangedrhythms]

Tell me, black heart, twelve white lies.

Maxine Kumin, It’s Not You, It’s Me: The Poetry of Breakup; from ‘Tell Me, Black Heart’, ed. Jerry Williams

#maxine kumin #it's not you it's me #tell me black heart #poetry #excerpts #heart

[tenth-sentence]

He says he's seen a housefly's brain.

The Microscope, Maxine Kumin

From "Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse" - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith

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[aemperatrix]

Maxine Kumin

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[rachelspoetrycorner]

How It Is (1976) by Maxine Kumin

Trigger warning: mention of suicide

In Episode 113, Rachel brings a poem about loss, specifically her friend, Anne Sexton, who died by suicide.

Rachel: I really love the confessional poets but have been hesitant to talk about them on this show, because again, a lot of dark material.

But Maxine Kumin's poem isn't morose, particularly. Y'know? It's more a recognition of what it's like to be present in this time after you've lost somebody. And in kind of how your connection to them continues, and how... I don't know, how you're forever changed by that. Uh, and I just felt like that poem was so beautiful, and so vivid, to me. Like, I could picture everything; I could picture that blazer.

One thing (and it's probably the thing) that makes me love Rachel's Poetry Corner so much is its wonderful delight by life's simple pleasures; those bigger or smaller things that inevitably cross all of our paths at least once in our lifetimes. That's why The Corner feels so cozy and welcoming, and familiar.

Yet, mixed with all those everyday life occurrences, with all those ordinary experiences we've become so acquainted with, there are also accidents, mistakes, hurting, and leaving, and death. It's painful to recognize that these are also part of our lives, and that they happen every day.

So I really appreciate when Rachel makes the risky decision to bring poems like this one; because, at face value, they could seem out of place, or that they don't fit the "wonderful vibe" we got going on here. But they do, they really do.

It's as if Rachel took the time to remind us, with a lot of care, that "Hey. Life? That's just How It Is."

If you’d like to hear more, you can do so here: Field of Necromancy, from 29:50 - 35:49

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[submarinerwrites]

conor oberst, “sausalito” / maxine kumin, “the masochist” / tom waits, “fumbling with the blues” / bright eyes, “lua” / maxine kumin, “the masochist” / ricky ray, “death, a wife, and a life of broken rules”

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[cor-ardens-archive]

Like those old pear-shaped Russian dolls that open at the middle to reveal another and another, down to the pea-sized, irreducible minim, may we carry our mothers forth in our bellies.

— Maxine Kumin, ‘The Envelope’

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[newsmutproject]

Afterward, the compromise. Bodies resume their boundaries. These legs, for instance, mine. Your arms take you back in. Spoons of our fingers, lips admit their ownership. The bedding yawns, a door blows aimlessly ajar and overhead, a plane singsongs coming down. Nothing is changed, except there was a moment when the wolf, the mongering wolf who stands outside the self lay lightly down, and slept.

- “After Love” by Maxine Kumin

#Maxine Kumin #poetry

[hepatosaurus]

national poetry month, day 4

Together The water closing over us and the going down is all. Gills are given. We convert in a town of broken hulls and green doubloons. O you dead pirates hear us! There is no salvage. All you know is the color of warm caramel. All is salt. See how our eyes have migrated to the uphill side? Now we are new round mouths and no spines letting the water cover. It happens over and over, me in your body and you in mine. —Maxine Kumin

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[outstanding-quotes]

Someone once said that we have art in order not to die of the truth

Maxine Kumin, How It Was

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[bones-ivy-breath]

How It Was: Maxine Kumin on Anne Sexton, from Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems

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[derangedrhythms]

Always Sexton explores relentlessly the eternal themes that obsess her: love, loss, madness, the nature of the father-daughter compact, and death — the Death Baby we carry with us from the moment of birth.

Maxine Kumin, from ‘Anne Sexton: The Complete Poems’

#maxine kumin #anne sexton

[whats-in-a-sentence]

The Microscope

Maxine Kumin

Anton Leeuwenhoek was Dutch.

He sold pincushions, cloth, and such.

The waiting townsfolk fumed and fussed

As Anton's dry goods gathered dust.

He worked, instead of tending store,

At grinding special lenses for

A microscope. Some of the things

He looked at were:

mosquitoes' wings,

the hairs of sheep, the legs of lice,

the skin of people, dogs, and mice;

ox eyes, spiders' spinning gear,

fishes' scales, a little smear

of his own blood,

and best of all,

the unknown, busy, very small

bugs that swim and bump and hop

inside a simple water drop.

Impossible! Most Dutchmen said.

This Anton's crazy in the head.

We ought to ship him off to Spain.

He says he's seen a housefly's brain.

He says the water that we drink

Is full of bugs. He's mad, we think!

They called him dumkopf, which means dope.

That's how we got the microscope.

"Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle... And Other Modern Verse" - compiled by Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders, and Hugh Smith

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[la-poesia-femenina]

El sobre

(Maxine Kumin, Estados Unidos, 1925)

Es verdad, Martin Heidegger, como lo has esccrito, temo parar, aún sabiendo que a la hora de mi muerte ellas me cargarán para siempre dentro de ellas, un feto arrestado, aún cuando cargo los fantasmas de mi madre bajo el ombligo, una nerviosa pequeña persona andrógina, un milagro doblado en posición de loto. Como esas antiguas muñecas rusas en forma de pera que se abren en medio para revelar otra y otra, abajo hasta el tamaño de un chícharo, al mínimo irreducible, podemos nosotras cargar a nuestras madres adelante en nuestras barrigas. Podemos, llevadas adelante por nuestras hijas, pasear en el Sobre de la Casi-Infinidad, la carta cadena vigente por los próximos veinticinco mil días de sus vidas.

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[moonshadowspoetry]

— from Good Poems for Hard Times edited by Garrison Keillor

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[emmykent]

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