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An Early Afterlife: Poems
Contributor(s): Pastan, Linda (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393313816     ISBN-13: 9780393313819
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 1995
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Annotation: 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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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - General
Dewey: 811.54
LCCN: 00000000
Physical Information: 0.23" H x 5.53" W x 8.53" L (0.27 lbs) 88 pages
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Publisher Description:
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.

Contributor Bio(s): Pastan, Linda: - Linda Pastan's many awards include the Maurice English Award, the Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumni Award, and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The former poet laureate of Maryland, she is the author of fourteen books of poetry--the latest of which, Insomnia, won the Towson University Prize for Literature. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
 
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