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This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. More about this book >
Instructions to the Reader: Come. Suspend willingly or not your disbelief and with empty pockets enter the room of the story. Warm your fingers at this candle which is only the stub of a dream and at any time may flicker or go out. More about this book >
Linda Pastan has twice been a Finalist for the National Book Award.
In 1932, Pastan was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx. She graduated from Radcliffe College and received an MA from Brandeis University.
She is the author of Traveling Light; Queen of a Rainy Country; The Last Uncle; Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998, which was nominated for the National Book Award; An Early Afterlife; Heroes In Disguise, The Imperfect Paradise, a nominee for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; PM/AM: New and Selected PoemsThe Five Stages of Grief , which was nominated for the National Book Award; A Perfect Circle of Sun.
Among her many awards and honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Dylan Thomas Award, the Di Castagnola Award, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Maurice English Award, the Charity Randall Citation, and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She was a recipient of a Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumnae Award.
From 1991 to 1995, she served as the Poet Laureate of Maryland, and was among the staff of the Breadloaf Writers Conference for twenty years.
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