Product Description: Incandescent poems about living and aging―about being awake in this young century―by one of our most moving and eloquent poets.These poems chart the journeys of sleepless nights when whole lifetimes seem to pass with their stories: loves lost and gained; children and seasons in their phases; and the world beyond, both threatening and enriching life...read more

A new collection from "one of the real treasures in poetry of our time" (Washington Post). Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from memories of the poet's earliest childhood and the ambiguities of marriage and love to the surprises that come with age, always with a consciousness of what is happening in the larger world.

Presents a collection of poems that focus on the themes of aging, loss, and death.

A collection of old and new poems explores the intrigues just beneath the surface of everyday life (view table of contents)

Product Description: "She is always exhilarating for a reader and very educational for a writer. She just happens to be one of the creators among current poets, alive and surprising, and deft." ―William Stratford "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...read more

Poems address the ambivalent emotions of family life, the difficulties of aging, the pleasures of art and history, and the changing of the seasons

Poems deal with birds, the past, children, beauty, rituals, myths, the moon, vacations, aging, death, family life, and hope

Poems deal with birds, the past, children, beauty, rituals, myths, the moon, vacations, aging, death, family life, and hope

Poems deal with nature, mortality, the past, travel, art, writing, failure, family life, dreams, emotions, illness, grief, and hope

Product Description: As the San Francisco Review of Books has written: “In Pastan’s world, a poem is not just anything; it is more than some ‘inspired’ words strung together casually. She earns each poem, line by line, insight by insight, felt emotion by felt emotion...read more

Mortality, grief, art, poetry, nature, and human relationships are considered in brief poems

Product Description: Linda Pastan has continued to share this sense of revelation ever more broadly and deeply, from book to book, with her readers―for, as May Sarton has said, “It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet...read more

The denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance that are part of the experiencing of grief are shown to be stages that must also be passed through to come to terms with life in this poetry collection