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Almost an elegy : new and later selected poems

Pastan, Linda 1932- (author.).

Summary: "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"--

Item details

ISBN: 9781324021490
ISBN: 1324021497
ISBN: 9781324021506
Physical Description: print
xv, 122 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: 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 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 -- 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 -- Qanda -- 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: 3AM -- 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 -- The Great Dog of Night/in The New Dog -- Domestic Animals -- In the Walled Garden -- I Am Learning to Abandon the World: For -- McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader -- Pluto -- Argos -- The Animals -- Old Joke.