An Early Afterlife by Linda Pastan
The world wounds us / with is beauty, as if it knew / we had to leave it soon, Linda Pastan writes in In a Northern Country, and the poems in this new volume are full of those wounds, that beauty, Whether her subject is the return of childhood ghosts or the metaphor of baseball, whether it is the impact of landscape or the vagaries of family love, Pastan continues to explore and illuminate the mysteries and dangers beneath the common surface of ordinary life. As the Jerusalem Post put it, She has, in large measure, fulfilled Emerson's dream-the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common. Or, as she herself writes in one of her new poems, Long after Eden, the imagination flourishes with all its unruly weeds.The Maurice English Award, the Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumni Award, and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize are among Linda Pastan's many honors. She is the former Maryland poet laureate and the author of fourteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Insomnia, was awarded the Towson University Award for Literature. She is a resident of Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393037272 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393037274 |
| Title | An Early Afterlife |
| Author | Linda Pastan |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | WW Norton & Co |
| Year published | 1995-01-17 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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