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Morning Swim

Maxine Kunin’s “Morning Swim” can be found here https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-137/morning-swim/

Sher’s reading comes from The Light Within: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin & Stanley Kunitz by Jeanne Graham and published by David R. Godine, 2007.


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3 responses to “Morning Swim”

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    suzylharrisgmailcom


    I love this poem. The rhythm, the images, the sensuality…perfection!

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    1. I am so pleased you enjoyed it. Maxine Kumin wrote: “Sounds is of particular importance in my poems. And I know I write better poems in form––with the demands of a rhyme scheme and a metrical pattern––than I do in looser line of free verse. Without form I’d feel like I was abandoned in flat Indiana with my eyelids sewn open.” 

      That last line is pretty convincing and humorous too. Sher

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    suzylharrisgmailcom

    As someone born & raised in Indiana, I don’t agree with her analogy but I do love a good poem in form!

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