Looking for Luck Poems

by Kumin, Maxine

• ISBN13: 9780393309478
• ISBN10: 0393309479
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-02-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

"From a marketplace in Bangkok to the fields of New Hampshire, from recollections of her own childhood to celebrations of an infant grandson, Kumin stakes her far-flung claims with authority in her tenth book of poetry."-- Publishers Weekly

Table of Contents

Credo	p. 15
Looking for Luck in Bangkok	p. 19
Progress	p. 21
Praisebe	p. 23
Ars Poetica: a Found Poem	p. 24
Hay	p. 25
A Morning on the Hill	p. 30
The Green Well	p. 32
Saga	p. 34
Taking the Lambs to Market	p. 37
The Succession	p. 38
Recycling	p. 39
Subduing the Dream in Alaska	p. 43
On Visiting Flannery O'Connor's Grave	p. 45
On Visiting a Friend in Southern California	p. 48
Voices from Kansas	p. 49
Fat Pets on	p. 51
Of Wings	p. 53
Getting around O'Hare	p. 55
Finding the One Brief Note	p. 57
Waking to Moonlight	p. 59
The Patriot	p. 60
The Poets' Garden	p. 63
The Geographic Center	p. 65
A Brief History of Passion	p. 71
Telling the Barn Swallow	p. 74
The Nuns of Childhood: Two Views	p. 76
Remarkable Women: an Apostrophe	p. 78
The Chambermaids in the Marriott in Mid-Morning	p. 79
Falling Asleep to the Sound of Waves	p. 80
Noah, at Six Months	p. 81
Anniversary	p. 82
The Confidantes	p. 83
The Porch Swing	p. 85
Indian Summer	p. 87
The Rendezvous	p. 91
Notes	p. 93
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