Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998
by:
Linda Pastan (author)
Linda Pastan is one of America's truly fine poets working at the height of her powers. — Michael Collier, Baltimore Sun
Linda Pastan is one of America's truly fine poets working at the height of her powers. — Michael Collier, Baltimore Sun
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393319279 (039331927X)
Publish date: August 17th 1999
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 320
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,...