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Maxine Kumin (June 6, 1925 – February 6, 2014) was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982.

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I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

Poems, Poetry, Wanted, Write, Writing, Wrung

Meanwhile let us cast one shadow in air and water.

Air, Shadow, Water

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

Sleep, Sleeping, Wake Up, Wakes, Years

Here on the drawing board fingers and noses leak from the air brush maggots lie under if i should die before if i should die in the back room stacked up in smooth boxes like soapflakes or tunafish wait the undreamt of.

Air, Dream, Lying, Room, Wait

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

Catchment, Nature, Sorrow, Sorrows

To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.

Alienation, Celebrate, Hatred, Odds, Poem, Writing

Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.

Poems, Poetry, Supposed, Uterus, Women

Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.

Way, Sometimes, Tradition, Keeping

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.

Happen, Happens, Nothing, Poetry, Valleys

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

Ending, Like, Mouth, Mouths, Poetry, Tails

The time on either side of now stands fast.

Fast, Side, Sides, Stands, Time

To build is to dwell.

Build, Building, Dwell

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

Choosy, God, Know, Want

The tougher the form the easier it is for me to handle the poem, because the form gives permission to be very gut honest about feelings.

Feelings, Gives, Giving, Handle, Honest, Permission

Can it be I am the only Jew residing in Danville, Kentuchy, looking for matzoh in the Safeway and the A & P?

Jew, Judaism, Matzoh, Residing, Safeway

. . . people get confidential at midnight.

Confidential, Midnight, People

Cherish your wilderness.

Cherish, Wilderness

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