You Are in Bear Country (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxine Winokur
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Satire
- Genres: Satire, Poetry
- Subjects: Violence, Fear, Canada or Canadians, Bears, Bureaucracy or bureaucrats, Animals, dangerous, Joy or sorrow, Pleasure
The Poem
“You Are in Bear Country” is a poem of seventy-three lines parodying a bureaucratic guidebook with futile warnings about bear attacks, which, for some reason, seem much more frightening to people than the threat of mass human violence such as nuclear annihilation. Maxine Kumin is a teacher, wife, mother, and author residing in Newton, Massachusetts; a collection of her poems, Up Country: Poems of New England (1973), won a Pulitzer Prize. Whether writing in verse or in prose, Kumin strives for the precise image, a lucidity of insight, and an economy of...
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