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...Kumin says that Sexton “gave me the courage to write openly about my feelings—I think I had been a rather academic, Latinate poet.” Kumin had become a formalist in part from her experience selling light verse to glossy magazines. As Sexton helped Kumin unwind, Kumin helped Sexton “see where she needed structure...
...hour-long interview with The Crimson last week, Kumin shied away from rehashing the details of Sexton’s long struggle with mental illness. “She was on the verge of suicide so many times, and we rescued her so many times,” Kumin says. “I remained close...
...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...
...Kumin embraces the comparison. “I am very pleased to be ‘the feminist Robert Frost’—I can’t think of anything I’d rather be,” Kumin says...
...example, in “Up Country,” the anthology that won her the Pulitzer in 1973, Kumin considers the birches that define the New England landscape from the perspective of a mother—whereas Frost famously approaches the same natural features from the vantage-point of an adult man looking back toward his boyhood. Kumin writes...