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Maxine Kumin, who experienced many different views of the world through travel, feels the most comfortable in New Hampshire, her rural home. In any area that she travels, she always makes a similarity to her home, as expressed in her poems. In ....

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... deceased friend, whom played a major role in her life. By putting on the jacket, she tries to relive the past by, “...unwind(ing) it, paste it together in a different collage...”. In this poem, Maxine Kumin, uses plants to describe her feelings, as in; “scatter like milkweed” and “pods of the soul”. These similes show what she sees and feels. “The Longing to be Saved”, is a dream, where her barn catches fire. “In and out of dreams as thin as acetate.” She visualizes herself getting the horses out, but they “wrench free, wheel, dash back”. In, “Family Reunion”, she writes that “nothing is cost efficient here”. Vegetables are grown on ...