From Pulitzer Prizexwinning poet Maxine Kumin comes a timeless memoir of life love and poetryMaxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist The Pawnbrokerxs Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in a Jewish community in Depression-era Philadelphia where Kuminxs father was a pawnbroker to Radcliffe College where she comes into her own as an intellectual and meets the soldier-turned-Los Alamos scientist who would become her husband to her metamorphosis from a poet of xClight versexD to a xCpoet of witnessxD to her farm in rural New England the subject and setting of much of her later workAgainst all odds Kumin channels her dissatisfaction with the life that is expected of her as a wife and a mother into her work as a feminist and one of the most renowned and remembered twentieth-century American poets photographs.
