Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998
by:
Linda Pastan (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393046311 (0393046311)
Publish date: April 1st 1998
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 301
Edition language: English
Well done, surely, but in my opinion a bit of a yawner.Linda Pastan takes ordinary human relations and ordinary life and makes them, well, ordinary. Her topics are marriage and family, death, and poetry. In imagery, she likes flowers and the natural world, and bread. The poems are tender and honest,...