Word: kuminã
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...Sexton visited Kumin??s home for lunch on October 4, 1974. Later that day, Sexton would fill her own Boston garage with carbon monoxide and asphyxiate herself...
...Kumin would later leave the Boston area to take up residence full-time at a Warner, N.H. farm that would come to be known as “Pobiz,” short for “Poetry Business.” The writings from Kumin??s “Pobiz” period reflect a keen awareness of the natural world that have led her work frequently to be compared to that of Robert Frost, who likewise studied here. (Frost, who enrolled at Harvard in 1897, withdrew from the College before ever receiving...
...Perhaps the primary similarity between Kumin??s poems and Frost’s—even more than their common grounding in the New England pastoral landscape—is their sheer accessibility to lay audiences. “I don’t think it requires any special proclivity to appreciate poetry,” Kumin says. “It just needs for you to be there and to hear...
...Kumin??s spat with the AAP is entirely absent from “Inside the Halo and Beyond,” her diary (written partially ex-post facto) from the last half of 1998. Indeed, that year of her life will forever be defined by a “perfect midsummer day”—July 21, 1998—which launched a long nightmare from which Kumin is still emerging...
...Inside the Halo” brings readers deep inside the Kumin hearth. We meet her grandson Yann, who would later live in Pennypacker Hall and Lowell House before graduating with a degree in history last June. He follows in the family tradition: both of Kumin??s daughters hold Crimson-emblazoned diplomas...