Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan (1932–2023) was the author of fifteen volumes of poems. A two-time National Book Award finalist and former poet laureate of Maryland, her many honors include the Maurice English Award and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her poems have been translated into eight languages.
Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan (1932–2023) was the author of fifteen volumes of poems. A two-time National Book Award finalist and former poet laureate of Maryland, her many honors include the Maurice English Award and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Her poems have been translated into eight languages.
Books by Linda Pastan
The Last Uncle: Poems
Linda Pastan
Paperback, 2003
"Autumnal and subdued...movingly chronicles loss, fear, the passing of time."—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book WorldTraveling Light: Poems
Linda Pastan
Hardback, 2011
A new collection from a poet long recognized for her “unfailing mastery of her medium” (New York Times).Traveling Light: Poems
Linda Pastan
Paperback, 2012
“Dark rhyming lyrics about love and impending loss. The poems may shake you, so be forewarned.”—Alan Cheuse, NPRInsomnia: Poems
Linda Pastan
E Book, 2015
Incandescent poems about living and aging—about being awake in this young century—by one of our most moving and eloquent poets.Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems
Linda Pastan
Hardback, 2022
A moving and incandescent volume from a poet celebrated for her “unfailing mastery of her medium” (New York Times Book Review).Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems
Linda Pastan
E Book, 2022
“[Pastan] is a poet of a hundred small delights, celebrations, responses, satisfactions, pleasures.” —Hudson Review
A moving and incandescent volume from a poet celebrated for her “unfailing...Insomnia: Poems
Linda Pastan
Paperback, 2017
Incandescent poems about living and aging—about being awake in this young century—by one of our most moving and eloquent poets.