Jack and Other New Poems Author:Maxine Kumin "[Kumin] is one of our very best writers, determined to celebrate and mourn, howl and sing."Robin Becker In her fourteenth collection, Maxine Kumin meditates on the social consequences of such events as the bicentennial of the Civil War, and looks to poets writing from circumstances vastly different from her own. With death the cen... more »tral theme, poems of the body and praise songs for beloved animals explore how memory consoles and haunts.« less