SOURCE: "Ecstasy and Irony," in Poetry, Vol. CLIX, No. 2, November, 1992, pp. 99-113.
In the following excerpt, Baker highly regards Kumin's work and points out that "it is nature that evokes her most passionate, exact writing, and provides a significant model for her to instruct or explain people to us."
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