Waiting for My Life: Poems

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.’”

Literature & Fiction

Pastan, Linda

Poetry

W.W.Norton&Company

Brief poems consider human mortality, vulnerability, pain, morality, concealment, and revelation

United States

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

A Fraction of Darkness

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

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

Imperfect Paradise

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

Heroes in Disguise: Poems

Poems deal with mortality, nature, work, aging, the seasons, time, and memory

An Early Afterlife: Poems

The Five Stages of Grief: Poems

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

A collection of old and new poems explores the intrigues just beneath the surface of everyday life

Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems : 1968-1998

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.

The Last Uncle

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.

Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems

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Books by Pastan, Linda

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Waiting for My Life: Poems

Waiting for My Life: Poems

A Fraction of Darkness

Imperfect Paradise

Heroes in Disguise: Poems

An Early Afterlife: Poems

The Five Stages of Grief: Poems

Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems : 1968-1998

The Last Uncle

Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems