Maxine Kumin (1925-2014) was a novelist, essayist and poet, who also wrote many children’s books. A lover of horses and equestrian arts, she received many awards, including a Pulitzer in for
Up Country in 1975. Her final volume,
And Short the Season, was published in 2014 by W. W. Norton. "Six Weeks After" first appeared in
Shenandoah 55/3.
two roistering dogs splayed me flat on frozen turf shattering six ribs consigning me to gray walls, bleak thoughts I’m up and about, hitching from place to place and I see the common coarse-grained stones have not given up their … Continue reading →