The Imperfect Paradise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pastan, Linda

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Women poets, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London : Norton, 1988.

Summary:

"This is a remarkable book, and it places Pastan among the most satisfying of contemporary American poets." -Josephine Jacobsen on The Five Stages of Grief in the Washington Post Book World.

Contents:

In the rearview mirror. Bird on bough ; Grudnow ; To a daughter leaving home ; The dogwoods ; Root pruning ; After an absense ; Beauty shop ; Ceremony ; Snapshot of my mother at 15 ; Turnabout ; At Xian ; In the review mirror Rereading The odyssey in middle age. At the loom ; Rereading The odyssey in middle age ; Circe ; Argos ; The sirens ; The son ; The suitor Balancing act. The safecracker ; Ars Poetica ; love poem ; Beavers ; balancing act: for N. ; Vacation ; The ordinary weather of summer ; A walk before breakfast ; Erosion The descent. Accidents ; Song of the hypochondriac ; Deags: "Intérieur" ; The angel of death ; Snowing: a triptych ; The accident ; Memorial Gardens, Queens ; The descent ; Family tree ; The Deathwatch Beetle ; Elegy ; Something about the trees The imperfect paradise. Eve, long afterwards ; Fruit of the tree ; Mother Eve ; On the question of free will ; The animals ; The imperfect paradise.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.