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Maxine Kumin
American poet and author
1925 – 2014aged 88
A poet who won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Up Country and served as U.S. Poet Laureate from 1981 to 1982, writing in a plain, closely observed style about rural New England life that critics compared to Robert Frost. She collaborated closely with fellow poet Anne Sexton for years, and after a 1998 horseback-riding accident broke her neck, continued writing and publishing poetry into her eighties from the New Hampshire farm she and her husband ran.