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by: Linda Pastan
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393050639
ISBN: 0393050637
Label: W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 77
Publication Date: 2002-04
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Sales Rank: 981656
Studio: W. W. Norton & Company
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In The Last Uncle, Linda Pastan writes, 'If death is everywhere we look, / at least let's marry it to beauty.' The poems in this new collection deal with loss and the difficult transition between generations, but they are also about love and landscape and the many pleasures of the imagination.
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Rating: - Poems of Memory
We do not have enough respect for poets these days. Unfortunately, the only poets most of us know are the past masters we were taught about in school. This is nothing against the past masters--I love their poetry as well. We need to remember, however, that there is a lot of great poetry still being written. This slim book of mostly quite short poems demonstrates that.
There are a lot of good poems here, especially in the first two sections. The overall theme of the book is memory ... Read More
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