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Pastan, Linda, 1932-2023 author.

An early afterlife : poems / Linda Pastan.

First edition.

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [1995]

©1995

xi, 72 pages ; 22 cm

In the words of the Jerusalem Post, the writer reveals "the miraculous in the common." In the poem, In a Northern Country, she writes: "The world wounds us / with its beauty, as if it knew / we had to leave it soon." By the author of The Imperfect Paradise.

American poetry -- 20th century.

Poetry.

Early after life

The python -- The lumberjacks -- Espaliered pear trees -- The book -- Narcissus at 60 -- At Indian river inlet -- On the threshold of silence -- "Ideal city" -- Daylight savings -- Beall mountain seasonal -- The birds -- Camping at the headlands of the Rappahannock -- Requiem -- The way things are -- With the passing of leaves -- Leaves -- Agoraphobia -- Smoke screen -- Meditation at 30,000 feet -- The suicide -- The soldier's wife -- Stationary bicycle -- Baseball -- Surfeit -- Calling -- Ruins -- The English novel -- The arithmetic of alternation -- Memory -- Silent treatment -- The Bronx, 1942 -- Courbet's "still life with apples and pomegranate" -- Poetry reading -- MD -- Landscape with statues -- Because I was never a child -- Family ties -- Almost an elegy -- The recovery zone -- High summer -- In a northern country -- April again -- Ghosts -- Old photograph album -- The laws of primogeniture -- What we fear most -- Flowers -- Gladiola -- Wisteria Floribunda -- Snow showers: a prothalamion -- Cosmic dust -- Vermilion -- Ah love, -- Foreshadowing -- The password -- The apple shrine -- Hardwood -- Migraine -- Flash forward -- Mercy -- Sometimes -- An early afterlife.

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