Book Chat With Pat | Poetry Thursday: Linda Pastan @BookChatWithPat8668 | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I discuss a little bit about the life and poetic career of the contemporary poet, Linda Pastan, who just died in 2023.

Poems read and discussed:
"Notes from the Delivery Room"
"To a Daughter Leaving Home"
"The Almanac of Last Things"
"My Obituary"

Books by Linda Pastan Mentioned:
Pastan, Linda. A Perfect Circle of Sun. Swallow Press, 1971.
Pastan, Linda. The Five Stages of Grief. W.W. Norton & Co., 1978.
Pastan, Linda. Waiting for My Life. W.W. Norton & Co., 1981.
Pastan, Linda. The Imperfect Paradise. W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.
Pastan, Linda. Heroes in Disguise. W. W. Norton & Co. 1991.
Pastan, Linda. An Early Afterlife. W.W. Norton & Co. 1995.
Pastan, Linda. Queen of a Rainy Country. W.W. Norton & Co. 2006.
Pastan, Linda. Almost an Elegy. W.W. Norton & Co., 2022.

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