Linda Pastan (1932 - Present)

Linda Pastan was born in New York City in 1932. She has published many books of poetry, including The Five Stages of Grief (1981), Waiting for My Life (1981), and PM/AM: New and Selected Poems (1982). She has won the Dylan Thomas Award, the Di Castagnola Award, The Bess Hokin Prize of Poetry magazine, the Virginia Faulkner Award from Prairie Schooner, and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Potomac, Maryland.

The poems are by default sorted according to volume, but you can also choose to sort them alphabetically or by page views.

First Line	Comments
After Adam Zagajewski
Because the shad
Finding a new poet
I have banked the fires
I remember what my father told me:
I sing a song
Into the gravity of my life,
It was early May, I think	1 Comment
Pierre Bonnard would enter
Some say
The door of winter
The gathering family	2 Comments
We think of hidden in a white dress	1 Comment
What we want	1 Comment
When I taught you	3 Comments
When our cars touched
When they taught me that what mattered most	1 Comment