Traveling Light: Poems - Hardcover

Pastan, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393079074 ISBN 13: 9780393079074

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011

Synopsis

A new collection from a poet long recognized for her “unfailing mastery of her medium” (New York Times).

Linda Pastan meditates on themes of aging and memory, language and art in this moving collection, where she travels from the Thanksgiving table, a “palimpsest / with traces of the past / showing through,” to Japan, where she dreams in haiku. “Pastan . . . expresses a full range of the possibilities and potencies of the human, feminine voice” (Boston Globe).

from "In the Forest"
     The trees are lit
     from within like Sabbath candles
     before they are snuffed out.
     Autumn is such a Jewish season,
     the whole minor key of it.
     Hear how the wind trembles
     through the branches, vibrato
     as notes of cello music.

About this title

About the Author:

Linda Pastan's many awards include the Maurice English Award, the Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumni Award, and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. The former poet laureate of Maryland, she is the author of fourteen books of poetry―the latest of which, Insomnia, won the Towson University Prize for Literature. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393079074
• ISBN 13: 9780393079074
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 77