Maxine Kumin Criticism: Further Reading

Gearhart, Jean B., "Courage to Survive—Maxine Kumin," Pembroke Magazine, No. 20 (1988): 272-75. (A brief overview of Kumin's life and work.)

Gould, Jean, "Anne Sexton-Maxine Kumin," in Modern American Women Poets, pp. 151-75. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1984. (Relates Kumin's career and life only by way of her friendship with Anne Sexton.)

Gwynn, R. S., "Review of Always Beginning: Essays on Life in Poetry, by Maxine Kumin," Hudson Review 54, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 341-42. (Gwynn assesses the strengths and weaknesses of Always Beginning: Essays on Life in Poetry.)

Howe, Florence, "Only Connect," Women's Review of Books 14, no. 1 (October 1996): 15-17. (In the following favorable review of Connecting the Dots, Howe contrasts the poetry of Kumin and Shirley Kaufman.)

Maso, Carole, "Review of The Long Approach, by Maxine Kumin," Women's Review of Books 4, no. 2 (November 1986): 19. (Maso offers a thematic and stylistic overview of The Long Approach.)

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