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The Last Uncle.

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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 : W. W. Norton & Company, 2002.
Summary:
Presents a collection of poems that focus on the themes of aging, loss, and death.
Contents:
"Women on the shore"
Practicing
Muse
Tears
Glass of cold water
To a poet, recently silent
Austerity
Invalid
Death of a potter
Answering machine
Grace
Dangerous month of March
Cossacks
Memory's guest
Family history
Frances and Mary Allen, sewing group, ca. 1900
Lost kingdom
March 5
Reading the obituary page
Potsy
Bess
Armonk
Another autumn
Last uncle
Penultimate things
Weather
Husbandry
Late love songs
Vanity of names
To Penelope
43rd anniversary
White lies
Round the mulberry bush
Crossing
Near the sacrificial site
We get what we wish for at our peril
Ghiaccio
Fibula
Wherever we travel
Gone missing
graffiti, route 22
Crows
Travelogue
Islands
Effets de Neige: Impressionists in winter
After a long absence, I return to a site of former happiness
Butterfly tree
Death of the bee
Threshold
Fame
Oak leaves
Poison ivy
In the garden
Months.
Notes:
Preliminaries omitted.

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