The Nightmare Factory. (Association Copy, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference)

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s third collection of poetry. Annotated on the front endpaper in black ink: “D.A. McKay · New Haven 1971. with me at Bread Loaf [Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference] 1971.”

Paper-clipped at the end is a slip of typed commentary dated 9/14/71, offering a sardonic and ambivalent critique of Kumin’s work and persona: “Maxine is too naive and sweet to hate. If I had not looked for mushrooms with her however, I think that I might have been tempted to do so. This volume is so helplessly reminiscent that anyone with any devotion to being young and writing about the now, must be quite put off by this. It is like a volume of poetry your mother sends to you which she has written in her free time after you have left home for college. You have to hide it in your desk, so your friends won’t see it. But when I met Maxine I found her motherly sweetness quite sincere and almost welcome. The title of this volume is very humorous. ”

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