Background
Pastan, Linda Olenik was born on May 27, 1932 in New York City. Daughter of Jacob L. and Bess (Schwartz) Olenik.
( "She is always exhilarating for a reader and very educa...)
"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. 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."
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A collection of poetry by the author of "The Imperfect Paradise", "PM/AM" and "A Fraction of Darkness" which range in subject matter from the passionate ambivalence of family life to the difficulties of ageing.
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This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream -- the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.'" Since then, Pastan has continued to explore 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. The new book follows work that over thirty years both darkens and deepens with time.
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A new collection from a poet long recognized for her "unfailing mastery of her medium" (New York Times). Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from the poet's earliest childhood memories to the surprises that come with age.
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"Linda Pastan is one of America's truly fine poets working at the height of her powers." ― Michael Collier, Baltimore Sun This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream ― the revelation of ‘the miraculous in the common.' " Since then Pastan has continued to explore the complexities, passion, and dangers under the surfaces of ordinary life. "Some critics point to Emily Dickinson when citing Pastan's lapidary style and metaphysical wit, a comparison that does justice to either poet when Pastan is at her best." ― Gettysburg Review "Pastan's unfailing mastery of her medium holds the darkness firmly in check." ― New York Times Book Review National Book Award finalist Linda Pastan was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1993.
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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.” This remarkable new collection of poems is a sure affirmation of the fact that, as one critic has written, Linda Pastan “has quietly become one of our leading poets.” Another critic noted, of her first volume, that she “in large measure fulfilled Emerson’s dream―the revelation of ‘the miraculous in the common.’”
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"Autumnal and subdued...movingly chronicles loss, fear, the passing of time."―Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World In The Last Uncle, Linda Pastan writes, "If death is everywhere we look, / at least let's marry it to beauty." The poems in this new collection deal with loss and the difficult transition between generations, but they are also about love and landscape and the many pleasures of the imagination.
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"This is a remarkable book, and it places Pastan among the most satisfying of contemporary American poets." ―Josephine Jacobsen on The Five Stages of Grief in the Washington Post Book World Imperfect Paradise, published in 1988, is Linda Pastan's 4th collection and was a nominee for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Poems deal with birds, the past, children, beauty, rituals, myths, the moon, vacations, aging, death, family life, and hope.
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“Out of the screams and shouts of women demanding liberation rises the clear, true voice of Linda Pastan, who, seemingly, through love and intelligence and a sure sense of her craft, has been liberated all along.” ―Mona Van Duyn "It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet. Nothing is here for effect. There is no self-pity, but in this new book she has reached down to a deeper layer and is letting the darkness in." ―May Sarton
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the poems in this book open and bloom - in the reader. Deceptively simple in structure, they reveal a startling clarity of poetic perception. they begin, often, with intensely personal moment of grief, joy, melancholy or ordinariness, but quickly transcend the purely personal. Rich in texture and beautifully controlled, these poems embody an unusual poetic vision; they frequently express the complexity today's consciousness has introduced into women's lives. Each poem gives it's own particular satisfaction, and the parts of the book cohere in an elegant way.
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“A keen awareness of our place in the cyclic nature of life is the theme that dominates this remarkably clear-sighted and gracefully written collection. . . . Highly recommended.” ―Library Journal, on Heroes in Disguise In her eighth collection, Linda Pastan touches upon themes of family, childhood, time and loss, and the beauty of nature. "Let the eye enlarge with all it beholds," she says in the opening poem; she becomes a seer, as the San Francisco Review of Books has said, “returning to the role of the poet as it served the human race for centuries: to fuel our thinking, show us our world in new ways, and to get us to feel more intensely.”
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A collection of poems that deal with loss and the difficult transition between generations. They are also about love and the landscape as well as the many pleasures of the imagination.
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Pastan, Linda Olenik was born on May 27, 1932 in New York City. Daughter of Jacob L. and Bess (Schwartz) Olenik.
Bachelor, Radcliffe College, 1954. Master of Library Science, Simmons College, 1955. Master of Arts, Brandeis University, 1957.
( Linda Pastan has continued to share this sense of revel...)
( “Out of the screams and shouts of women demanding liber...)
( “Out of the screams and shouts of women demanding liber...)
(A collection of poetry by the author of "The Imperfect Pa...)
( “A keen awareness of our place in the cyclic nature of ...)
( "This is a remarkable book, and it places Pastan among ...)
( A new collection from a poet long recognized for her "u...)
(This volume brings together new work along with poems gat...)
(A collection of poems that deal with loss and the difficu...)
( "Linda Pastan is one of America's truly fine poets work...)
( "She is always exhilarating for a reader and very educa...)
(the poems in this book open and bloom - in the reader. De...)
( "Autumnal and subdued...movingly chronicles loss, fear,...)
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Married Ira Pastan, 1953. Children: Stephen, Peter, Rachel.