Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998 - Softcover

Pastan, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 039331927X ISBN 13: 9780393319279

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

Synopsis

"Linda Pastan is one of America's truly fine poets working at the height of her powers." ― Michael Collier, Baltimore Sun

This volume brings together new work along with poems gathered from nine previous collections. When Linda Pastan's first book was published in 1971, the Jerusalem Post wrote, she "in large measure fulfilled Emerson's dream ― the revelation of ‘the miraculous in the common.' " Since then Pastan has continued to explore the complexities, passion, and dangers under the surfaces of ordinary life. "Some critics point to Emily Dickinson when citing Pastan's lapidary style and metaphysical wit, a comparison that does justice to either poet when Pastan is at her best." ― Gettysburg Review  "Pastan's unfailing mastery of her medium holds the darkness firmly in check." ― New York Times Book Review National Book Award finalist  Linda Pastan was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1993.

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.

Review

1932
1936, Upstate New York
25th Anniversary
25th High School Reunion
After
After Agatha Christie
After An Absence
After Minor Surgery
Agoraphobia
Algebra
The Almanac Of Last Things
Am
Angels
The Animals
Anna At 18 Months
Anon.
The Apple Shrine
Arcadia
Arithmetic Lesson: Infinity
The Arithmetic Of Alternation
Ark
Ars Poetica 2. Writing
Ars Poetica 3. Rejection Slip
Ars Poetica 4. Revision
Ars Poetica 5.ars Poetica
Ars Poetica 1. The Muse
Aspects Of Eve
At Indian River Inlet
At The Gynecologist's
At The Jewish Museum
At The Loom
Autumn
Balance
Because
Beech Avenue: The Fourth Of July
Between Generations
Bicentennial Winter
Blizzard
Block
The Book
The Bookstall
The Bronx, 1942
Butter
Camping At The Headland Of The Rappahannock
Carnival Evening
Caroline
Circe
Consolations
Courbet's Still Life With Apples And Pomegranate
Cousins
A Craving For Salt
Crocuses
A Dangerous Time
The Death Of A Parent
Death's Blue-eyed Girl
The Deathwatch Beetle
Deer
Departures
Detail From The Altarpiece At Ghent
Dirge
The Dogwoods
Dream Plants
Dreaming Of Rural America
Dreams
Drift
Duet For One Voice
An Early Afterlife
Eclipse
Egg
Elegy
Emily Dickinson
The English Novel
Epilogue
Erosion
Espaliered Pear Trees
Ethics
Excursion
Eyes Only
Fall In The Literary Review
Family Scene: Mid-twentieth Century
Family Tree
The Five Stages Of Grief
Flowers
Folk Tale
Foreshadowing
Fresco
Fruit Of The Tree
Funerary Tower: Han Dynasty
Geneticist
Ghosts
Gleaning
Go Gentle
Green Thumb
Grudnow
The Happiest Day
Hardwood
The Hat Lady
High Summer
Ice Age
Ideal City
The Imperfect Paradise: In The Garden
The Imperfect Paradise: Seasonal
The Imperfect Paradise: Somewhere In The Euphrates
The Imperfect Paradise: The Imperfect Paradise
In A Northern Country
In Back Of
In The Kingdom Of Midas
In The Middle Of A Life
In The Old Guerilla War
In The Rearview Mirror
Instructions To The Reader
It Is Raining On The House Of Anne Frank
January, 7 A.m.
Japanese Lantern
Journey's End
Knots
The Last Train
The Laws Of Primogeniture
Le Sens De La Nuit
Letter
Libation, 1966
Lists
Lost Luggage
The Lumberjacks
March 27
Market Day
Marks
Mcguffey's First Eclectic Reader
Meditation By The Stove
Misreading Housman
Mosaic 1. The Sacrifice
Mosaic 2. Near Sinai
Mosaic 3. The Flight Into Egypt
Mosaic 4. At The Armenian Tile Shop
Mother Eve
The Myth Of Perfectability
A Name
Narcissus At 60
Nature Morte
A New Poet
The Newborn
The News Of The World
Night Sounds
Nocturnal
Nostalgia
Notes From The Delivery Room
Notes To My Mother
November
The Obligation To Be Happy
October Catechisms
October Funeral
Old Photograph Album
An Old Song
Old Woman
On The Marginality Of Poets
On The Question Of Free Will
The Ordinary Weather Of Summer
Orpheus
Overture
Pain
Passover
Pm
Popcorn
Postcard From Cape Cod
The Printer
Proclamation At A Birth
Prologue
Prosody 101
The Python At The Children's Zoo
Rachel (rachel [ra'chal,] A Ewe)
A Real Story
Realms Of Gold: 1. Recess
Realms Of Gold: 2. The Quarrel
Realms Of Gold: 3. Final Instructions
Red Fox
Rereading The Odyssey In Middle Age
Response
Routine Mammogram
Rsvp Regrets Only
Sacred To Apollo
The Safecracker
Sculpture Garden
Secrets
Self-portrait
September
Shadows
A Short History Of Judaic Thought In The Twentieth Century
The Sirens
Skylight
Smoke Screen
Snow Showers, A Prothalamion
Snowing: A Triptych
Snowstorm
Something About The Trees
Sometimes
Stationary Bicycle
Still Life
Subway
Suffocation
A Symposium: Apples
There Are Poems
There Is A Figure In Every Landscape
This Enchanted Forest: 1. Rumpelstiltskin
This Enchanted Forest: 2. Snow White
This Enchanted Forest: 3. The Princess And The Pea
This Enchanted Forest: 4. The Elves And The Shoemaker
This Enchanted Forest: 5. Gretel
Threads To Be Woven Later
To A Daughter Leaving Home
To A Second Son
To Consider A House
Unveiling
Vermilion
Voices
Waiting For My Life
A Walk Before Breakfast
Water Wheel
The Way The Leaves Keep Falling
Weather Forecast
What We Fear Most
What We Want
Who Is It Accuses Us?
Wildflowers
Wind Chill
Woman Holding A Balance
You Are Odysseus
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

Linda Pastan is one of America's truly fine poets working at the height of her powers. -- Michael Collier, Baltimore Sun

Pastan's unfailing mastery of her medium holds the darkness firmly in check. -- New York Times Book Review

Some critics point to Emily Dickinson when citing Pastan's lapidary style and metaphysical wit, a comparison that does justice to either poet when Pastan is at her best. -- Gettysburg Review

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 039331927X
• ISBN 13: 9780393319279
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320