| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xv, 301 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
New Poems, 1998 -- The Almanac of Last Things -- Nocturnal -- Le Sens de la Nuit -- Dreaming of Rural America -- 1936, Upstate New York -- The News of the World -- October Catechisms -- The Obligation to Be Happy -- Letter -- Snowstorm -- Wind Chill -- Red Fox -- Deer -- A Craving for Salt -- Notes to My Mother -- Self-Portrait -- Proclamation at a Birth -- The Newborn -- Anna at 18 Months -- This Enchanted Forest -- Anon. -- RSVP Regrets Only -- Fall in the Literary Review -- Still Life -- Nature Morte -- Woman Holding a Balance -- Carnival Evening -- A Perfect Circle Of Sun, 1971 -- Arcadia -- January, 7 A.M. -- At the Gynecologist's -- Notes from the Delivery Room -- Dirge -- Skylight -- Emily Dickinson -- At the Jewish Museum -- Passover -- The Last Train -- To a Second Son -- Beech Avenue: The Fourth of July -- There Is a Figure in Every Landscape -- Libation, 1966 -- Between Generations -- October Funeral -- Journey's End -- A Dangerous Time -- Aspects Of Eve, 1975 -- Rachel -- Night Sounds -- A Real Story -- Go Gentle -- Wildflowers -- Folk Tale -- Death's Blue-Eyed Girl -- To Consider a House -- You Are Odysseus -- Butter -- Knots -- Block -- Drift -- Popcorn -- Sacred to Apollo -- Aspects of Eve -- After Agatha Christie -- Algebra -- Eclipse -- A Symposium: Apples -- The Five Stages Of Grief, 1978 -- Funerary Tower: Han Dynasty -- After -- Egg -- Voices -- In the Old Guerilla War -- Marks -- It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank. |
| Summary |
Poet Linda Pastan explores the complexities, passion, and dangers under the surfaces of ordinary life. She speaks in the voices of Penelope and Eve; of daughter, mother, and wife. This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. Pastan was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1993. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Women authors.
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Women -- United States -- Poetry.
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Women poets, American -- 20th century -- Family relationships.
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American poetry -- Women authors.
(OCoLC)fst00807417
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Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Women poets, American -- Family relationships.
(OCoLC)fst01178330
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0393046311 |
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9780393046311 |
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