Maxine Kumin

Nov 4, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Sarah Maslin Nir |Maxine Kumin |Jane Smiley |Lara Prior-Palmer

Reading Lists In literature, horses have come to symbolize freedom, courage, and beauty It’s no coincidence that there are horses on the walls of caves in Lascaux, atop St. Mark’s in Venice, under the derriere of Marcus Aurelius in Rome, and alongside the Terracotta Army in China. Since they were first domesticated more than three thousand years ago, horses have been our transport, farming equipment, war machines, source of meat and milk, and a fine reason to bet your paycheck. While in...

Oct 13, 2024 | 3quarksdaily.com | Maxine Kumin |Jim Culleny

NurtureFrom a documentary on marsupials I learn that a pillowcase makes a fine substitute pouch for an orphaned kangaroo. I am drawn to such dramas of animal rescues. They are warm in the throat. I suffer, the critic proclaims, from an overabundance of female genes. Bring me your fallen fledgling, your bummer lamb, lead the abused, the starvelings, into my barn. Advise the hunted deer to leap into my corn.

Nov 13, 2023 | vietbao.com | Maxine Kumin

Sau tất cả, sau lúc thỏa hiệp. Thân thể khép lại ranh giới của chúng. Cặp đùi này, chẳng hạn, là của em. Vòng tay anh quay lại ôm ấp chính anh. Ngón tay, bờ môi thu hồi nhận quyền sở hữu. Chăn chiếu ngáp dài, cánh cửa mở ra mở vào vô định và trên đầu, tiếng máy bay ùn ùn đáp xuống. Chả gì thay đổi, trừ một phút nào đó khi con sói loài luôn nhe nanh vuốt canh gác bên ngoài khuỵa xuống, tạm ngủ.

Oct 2, 2023 | themarginalian.org | Maria Popova |Maxine Kumin

It is one of the hardest things in life — discerning where we end and the rest of the world begins, negotiating the permeable boundary between self and other, all the while longing for its dissolution, longing to be set free from the prison of ourselves.