News at Eleven: This is [Maxine] Kumin's poetic realm,

and it's the world of "Where I Live."

The book's selected poems can also be read as a chronicle of Kumin's life and times during the last two decades. The strongest run comes from the 1996 collection "Connecting the Dots"--"Chores," "The Word," "From the 18th Floor," "Beans, Beans, Beans."

Here is one of those poems, "Gus Speaks":

from Nashua Telegraph: Muse still strong for poet from Warner

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