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Whereof the Gift Is Small By Maxine

Whereof the Gift Is Small By Maxine

The December Poetry is another questiona & answers issue. I like the format, since it allows us as readers to get inside the heads of the poets. Whether this is always to the benefit of the poet may be another matter. But there are some good poems in this issue, as so often there are. Maxine W. Kumin;s |Whereof the Gift Is Small” did not strike me at first, in fact, until I read the interview, and realized it was an elegy to her horse. So I trotted ...