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Kumin’s poetry focuses on family relations, the fragility of our environment, and the life and death of animals. Her publications of short stories, novels, and essays are in addition to her more than a dozen books of poetry, beginning with Halfway in 1961.
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The term comes via Middle English comyn, from Old English cymen (which is cognate with Old High German kumin) and Old French cummin, both from the Latin term cuminum.
Kumin was also a noted writer of fiction, and admitted to a certain overlap between the two genres. “I tend to steal from myself,” she said in an interview published in To Make a Prairie.
Kumin’s novels were praised in literary circles, but she was best known for her poetry, written primarily in traditional forms, on the subjects of loss, fragility, family, and the cycles of life and nature.
Maxine Kumin is the author of 18 collections of poetry, from her first collection, Halfway, published in 1961 when she was 36 years old to her final collection, And Short the Season, published in 2014 after she died at the age of 88.
Kumin has served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now, U.S. poet laureate) and poet laureate of New Hampshire. She is also a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She died in Warner, New Hampshire, on .
