The pawnbroker's daughter, a memoir, Maxine Kumin
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The pawnbroker's daughter, a memoir, Maxine Kumin
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
resource.biographical
autobiography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The pawnbroker's daughter
Nature of contents
bibliography
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891611227
Responsibility statement
Maxine Kumin
Sub title
a memoir
Summary
"From Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin, a timeless memoir of life, love, and poetry. Maxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist. The Pawnbroker's Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in the Jewish community in Depression-era Philadelphia, where Kumin's father was a pawnbroker, to Radcliffe College, where she comes into her own as an intellectual and meets the soldier-turned-Los Alamos scientist who would become her husband; to her metamorphosis from a poet of "light verse" to a "poet of witness"; to her farm in rural New England, the subject and setting of much of her later work. Against all odds, Kumin channels her dissatisfaction with the life that is expected of her as a wife and a mother into her work as a feminist and one of the most renowned and remembered twentieth-century American poets" --, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Need money? See Pete. Recollections by the pawnbroker's daughter -- Love in wartime -- Metamorphosis: from light verse to the poetry of witness -- Our farm, my inspiration -- The making of PoBiz farm
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