Always Beginning: On a Life in Poetry by Maxine Kumin

   Maxine Kumin,
Always Beginning: On a Life in Poetry, essays: The Pulitzer Prize winner engagingly describes the marriage of her lives as writer, farmer, mother, wife, and comrade, including a moving remembrance of her friendship with Anne Sexton. (Copper Canyon)
Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of Recovery, nonfiction: Kumin, a lifelong equestrian, took up carriage racing in her early seventies, but in 1998 was thrown, and broke her neck. Miraculously she recovered, and this journal candidly and beautifully recounts her ordeal. (Norton)