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The Library of Congress holds a number of books by Maxine Kumin, as well as recordings of her work, in its physical collections. A selected bibliography of books and sound recordings by Maxine Kumin held by the Library of Congress follows below.
The following titles link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are included when available.
You can identify additional materials by searching the Library of Congress Online Catalog using the following headings.
The Library's subscription databases, available only to on-campus users, include many articles, interviews, essays, and literary criticism related to Kumin's life and work. If you need assistance locating resources related Maxine Kumin in these databases or in our physical collections, please contact the Library's Researcher and Reference Services Division.
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief by 
Women, Animals, and Vegetables by 
Why Can't We Live Together Like Civilized Human Beings? by 
The Pawnbroker's Daughter by 
Inside the Halo and Beyond by 
Telling the Barn Swallow by 
"The poet and the poem" at the Library of Congress. Maxine Kumin [sound recording].Maxine Kumin reading from her poetry [sound recording].Stamping a tiny foot against God [sound recording] : some American women poets writing between the two wars : lecture.The poet and the mule [sound recording] : Maxine Kumin delivering a lecture.Maxine Kumin, Consultant in Poetry, reading her poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Jan. 26, 1981 [sound recording].Maxine Kumin reading her poems with comment at the Fasset Recording Studio, Boston, Mass., May 1960 [sound recording].Enjoyment of poetry. The poet as amphibian [sound recording].Alan Dugan and Maxine Kumin reading and discussing their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Oct. 21, 1974 [sound recording].Poets in person. Karl Shapiro with Joseph Parisi. Poets in person. Maxine Kumin with Alicia Ostriker [sound recording].The 1987 Consultants' reunion [sound recording] : two evenings of readings celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Consultanship in Poetry.
