Title: An early afterlife : poems /
Authors: Pastan, Linda, 1932-; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 1995
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: 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.
Contents: 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 --