Almost an Elegy

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“Restless and serene, spirited and subdued.… [Pastan’s] poems look at the drama and depth of ordinary life.” “Deceptively simple, casually precise, stylishly candid—these are the earmarks of a Pastan poem.” “Pastan’s natural strengths [are] lyrical lines, fluidity and grace.… [O]ne of our best [poets].” “Linda Pastan is one of America’s truly fine poets working at the height of her powers.” “[Pastan] is a poet of a hundred small delights, celebrations, responses, satisfactions, pleasures.” “[Pastan] has the talent to blend seriousness and playfulness in a variety of forms and rhythms.… [S]he has given her readers a healthy series of reflective and life-changing poems—poems to enrich us.” A moving and incandescent volume from a poet celebrated for her “unfailing mastery of her medium” ( ). US