The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir

by Maxine Kumin

Book Overview

Maxine Kumin left an unrivaled legacy as a pioneering poet and feminist. The Pawnbroker's Daughter charts her journey from a childhood in a Jewish community in Depression-era Philadelphia, where Kumin's 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 "light verse" to a "poet of witness";...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393246337
• ISBN13: 9780393246339
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.2"