Almost an elegy New and later selected poems
Book - 2022
"A moving and incandescent volume from a poet celebrated for her 'unfailing mastery of her medium' (New York Times Book Review). In poems of graceful lyricism and penetrating observation, award-winning poet Linda Pastan sheds new light on the complexities of ordinary life and the rising tide of mortality. Drawing from Pastan's five most recent volumes-including The Last Uncle (2002), Traveling Light (2011), and Insomnia (2015)-and with over thirty new poems, Almost an Elegy reflects on beauty, old age, and the probability of loss. Whether in a lush evocation of an impressionist painting or a wry and wistful ode to a car key, Pastan finds lucid meaning in the passage of time"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Company
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xv, 122 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781324021490
- New Poems
- Memory of a Bird
- On the Sill of the World
- Sting
- For Miriam, Who Hears Voices
- A Different Kind of April: For Joan
- I Hold My Breath
- Truce
- Kristallnacht
- Instruction
- Almost an Elegy: For Tony Hoagland
- Class Notes
- The Tourist
- Squint,
- Tulips in a glass vase
- Plunder: To a Young Friend
- Ode to My Car Key
- Cataracts
- Apartment Life
- The Clouds
- The Quarry, Pontoise
- Interior, Woman at the Window
- Anonymous
- Rereading Anna Karenina for the Fifth Time
- Crimes
- How Far Would You Trust Your Art?
- Mirage
- The Collected Poems
- Summer Triptych
- Lightning
- At the Winery
- Autumn: For Jane Kenyon
- Away
- The Future
- From The Last Uncle (2002)
- Women on the Shore
- Practicing
- Tears
- Grace
- The Cossacks: For F
- Potsy
- Bess
- Armonk
- The Last Uncle
- Husbandry
- Ghiaccio
- The Death of the Bee
- From Queen of a Rainy Country (2006)
- A Tourist at Ellis Island
- Maiden Name
- Parting the Waters
- I Married You
- 50 Years
- Firing the Muse
- Rereading Frost
- Heaven
- Geography
- Leaving the Island
- Death Is Intended
- What We Are Capable Of
- Why are your poems so dark?
- A Rainy Country
- From Traveling Light (2011)
- The Burglary
- Bread
- March
- Lilacs
- Eve on Her Deathbed
- Years After the Garden
- Cows
- Q and A
- On Seeing an Old Photograph
- Ash
- Silence
- In the Forest
- Somewhere in the World
- On the Steps of the Jefferson Memorial
- The Ordinary
- Flight
- Traveling Light
- From Insomnia (2015)
- Insomnia: 3 AM
- Consider the Space Between Stars
- Late In October
- In the Orchard
- First Snow
- The Gardener
- After the Snow
- Edward Hopper, Untided
- Adam and Eve
- Fireflies
- Imaginary Conversation
- In the Happo-En Garden, Tokyo
- River Pig
- Ship's Clock
- At Maho Bay: For Jon
- Ah, friend
- Last Rites
- Musings Before Sleep
- From A Dog Runs Through It (2018)
- The Great Dog of Night
- The New Dog
- Domestic Animals
- In the Walled Garden
- I Am Learning to Abandon the World: For M
- McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader
- Pluto
- Argos
- The Animals
- Old Joke
- Envoi
Review by Library Journal Review