Jack and Other New Poems
Jack and Other New Poems by Maxine Kumin is a collection published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2005, featuring 112 pages of poetry in English. This fifteenth collection showcases Kumin’s signature pastoral style, blending humor and reflection as seen in pieces like “Seven Caveats in May,” where her dog encounters a bear. The poems also delve into more serious themes, addressing the onset of war, environmental concerns, and personal loss, all while maintaining a connection to nature.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of emotions and experiences throughout this collection, as Kumin navigates the complexities of life and mortality. The poems reflect on the passage of time, the loss of loved animals, and the bittersweet nature of memory. With a focus on both the beauty and the darker aspects of existence, this edition invites contemplation on the human experience and the natural world, making it a significant addition to the realm of contemporary poetry.
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Maxine Kumin’s fifteenth collection contains many new examples of her signature pastoral poems: in the comic “Seven Caveats in May,” her dog puts a bear up a tree. “Fox on His Back” paints winter’s “long nights shy of melt,” with perhaps the same “brown and pregnant bear / leafwrapped like an old cigar.” But she also explores darker themes: the onset of war, threats to our civil liberties and to the environment, the bitter feuding of brothers, Ulysses S. Grant’s little-known Jew Order. Loved animals die or disappear, and poems that question “where any of us is going” reveal a heightened awareness of her own mortality in this, her eightieth year. With death the central theme, poems of the body and praise songs for beloved animals explore how memory consoles and haunts.
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