"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. 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