Maxine Kumin

The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir

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Maxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist. The Pawnbroker's Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in a 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… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-393-24633-9
EAN: 9780393246339
Produktnummer: 21950735
Verlag: W W Norton & Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.2 cm x D1.8 cm 227 g
Gewicht: 227

Über den Autor

Maxine Kumin (1925-2014), a former U.S. poet laureate, was the author of nineteen poetry collections as well as numerous works of fiction and nonfiction. Her awards included the Pulitzer Prize, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award, the Poet's Prize, and the Harvard Arts and Robert Frost medals.