Ebook {Epub PDF} Looking for Luck: Poems by Maxine Kumin

 · Looking for luck in Bangkok by Maxine Kumin. Often at markets I see people standing in line to walk under an elephant. They count out a few coins, then crouch to slip beneath the wrinkly umbrella that smells of dust and old age and a thousand miracles. They unfold on the other side blessed with long life, good luck, solace from grief,Estimated Reading Time: 2 mins. Looking for luck: Poems by Maxine Kumin and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru Joyce Peseroff. Although best known for its pastoral sympathies, Maxine Kumin's work has always possessed a moral edge, and in her latest book, Looking for Luck, she confronts the precarious nature of privilege, awarded to some, withheld from others, human and beast alike. In "Looking for Luck in Bangkok," the poet stoops under an elephant smelling of "a thousand miracles," aware of her "good .

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Poetry. Maxine Kumin is the author of 18 collections of poetry, from her first collection, Halfway, published in when she was 36 years old to her final collection, And Short the Season, published in after she died at the age of As one of the most accomplished American poets, as well as a seasoned New Englander, world traveler, accomplished horsewoman, and bemused veteran of the poetry reading circuit, Kumin demonstrates that she is an avowed believer in the daily poetry that is life. Kumin's observant, affirmative poems vividly capture the active round of her days and travels. ISBN $ in my keeping, the thrust to go on. (Maxine Kumin, Looking for Luck: Poems, New York: W. W. Norton Company, originally published: , paperback edition: , p. ) In this poem I've found my New Year's resolution for "living on grateful terms. with the earth.".