Connecting the Dots

by Kumin, Maxine

• ISBN13: 9780393039627
• ISBN10: 0393039625
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Summary

"Kumin's is a poetry of wide sympathy and tact in which the ecumenical flavor is dominant. . . . This collection is full of generational severance and renewal, and a tart and compassionate irony."-The New Yorker

Table of Contents

Letters	p. 15
The Height of the Season	p. 22
After the Cleansing of Bosnia	p. 24
Getting the Message	p. 27
Rehearsing for the Final Reckoning in Boston	p. 29
Youth Orchestra, with Dogs	p. 31
Cross-Country Skiing	p. 33
The Bridge-Builder	p. 37
The Last Words of Henry Manley	p. 42
In a Different Country	p. 47
An Insider's View of the Garden	p. 48
Early Thoughts of Winter	p. 50
Almost Spring, Driving Home, Reciting Hopkins	p. 51
After the Heat Wave	p. 52
Chores	p. 53
In Praise of the New Transfer Station	p. 54
The Word	p. 56
Vignette	p. 58
Deja Vu	p. 59
Down East News Item	p. 61
Allegories in H, D, and B	p. 62
New Year's Eve 1959	p. 69
October, Yellowstone Park	p. 71
In Memory of Danny L.	p. 74
Carrying Sue	p. 75
Lancaster County	p. 77
After the Poetry Reading	p. 78
Gus Speaks	p. 79
From the 18th Floor	p. 81
Spring Training	p. 82
Beans Beans Beans	p. 83
The Riddle of Noah	p. 84
Connecting the Dots	p. 86
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