The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir

Biography & Memoir, Literary
Cover of the book The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir by Maxine Kumin, W. W. Norton & Company
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Maxine Kumin ISBN: 9780393246346
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: July 13, 2015
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Maxine Kumin
ISBN: 9780393246346
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: July 13, 2015
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

From Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin comes a timeless memoir of life, love, and poetry.

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 her work as a feminist and one of the most renowned and remembered twentieth-century American poets.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

From Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Maxine Kumin comes a timeless memoir of life, love, and poetry.

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 her work as a feminist and one of the most renowned and remembered twentieth-century American poets.

More books from W. W. Norton & Company

Cover of the book LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice . . . and Your Life by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Ohio: A Bicentennial History (States and the Nation) by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Vice: New and Selected Poems by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Simple Self-Care for Therapists: Restorative Practices to Weave Through Your Workday by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Strong As Death Is Love: The Song of Songs, Ruth, Esther, Jonah, and Daniel, A Translation with Commentary by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book The Man Who Would Stop at Nothing: Long-Distance Motorcycling's Endless Road by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book How It Ends: From You to the Universe by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book The Essentials of Persuasive Public Speaking by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Mathletics: A Scientist Explains 100 Amazing Things About the World of Sports by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book The Turk and My Mother: A Novel by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Big If: A Novel by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces by Maxine Kumin
Cover of the book Love and War in Intimate Relationships: Connection, Disconnection, and Mutual Regulation in Couple Therapy by Maxine Kumin
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy