Diana Hume George (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Creature Comforts," in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. IX, No. 8, May, 1992, p. 17.
[George is a poet, educator, and critic. In the following review of Looking for Luck, she describes Kumin "as a survivor who knows her survival is only temporary, she uses poetry to come to terms with as many permanent losses as possible before the final one."]
With Looking For Luck, her tenth volume of poetry, Maxine Kumin joins the Norton stable of writers. I'm usually uncomfortable with that term, but...
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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