Looking for Luck by Maxine Kumin

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Looking for Luck by Maxine Kumin. 1992 WW Norton, first edition, 94 pages. Kumin was a Pulitzer winning poet who also write novels and children's books, including one with her dear friend poet Anne Sexton. According to her NYT obituary: "Ms. Kumin’s style defied tidy categorization. Though her poems and essays centered on the New England countryside, she trafficked in none of the sentimental effusions of traditional pastoral poets.[...] If there was a thematic constant in Ms. Kumin’s work, it was the fragile yet reassuringly durable balance in which connection, rupture and continuity find themselves arranged. All poems are elegies at their core, she often said." Condition: Jacket VG, some wear, book VG with pencil price on half title page, some dirt on page39 "We embarrass each other." " Show more