Maxine Kumin. Jack and Other New Poems.(Tess Gallagher. Dear Ghosts)(Book review)

Maxine Kumin. Jack and Other New Poems. Norton. Tess Gallagher. Dear Ghosts , Graywolf.

The poems in Jack and Other New Poems , Maxine Kumin's fifteenth collection, possess the same kind of dignity as the book's namesake, a horse described as "calm as a president's portrait." Throughout the volume, Kumin uses spare, unadorned lines and language to puncture our assumptions about the supposed dignity and nobility ...

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