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Title

Carnival evening : new and selected poems, 1968-1998 / Linda Pastan.

Author

Pastan, Linda, 1932-

Publication

New York, NY : Norton, [1998], ©1998.

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Details

Description

xv, 301 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Linda Pastan has continued to explore the complexities, passion, and dangers under the surfaces of ordinary life. Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems 1968-1998 brings together new work with the best poems from her nine previous volumes. In it she speaks in the voices of Penelope and Eve: of daughter, mother, and wife.

Contents

• The Almanac of Last Things -- Nocturnal -- Le Sens de la Nuit -- Dreaming of Rural America -- 1936, Upstate New York -- The News of the World -- October Catechisms -- The Obligation to Be Happy -- Letter -- Snowstorm -- Wind Chill -- Red Fox -- Deer -- A Craving for Salt -- Notes to My Mother -- Self-Portrait -- Proclamation at a Birth -- The Newborn -- Anna at 18 Months -- This Enchanted Forest -- Anon -- RSVP Regrets Only -- Fall in the Literary Review -- Still Life -- Nature Morte -- Woman Holding a Balance -- Carnival Evening -- Arcadia -- January, 7 A.M. -- At the Gynecologist's -- Notes from the Delivery Room -- Dirge -- Skylight -- Emily Dickinson -- At the Jewish Museum -- Passover -- The Last Train -- To a Second Son -- Beech Avenue: The Fourth of July -- There Is a Figure in Every Landscape -- Libation, 1966 -- Between Generations -- October Funeral -- Journey's End -- A Dangerous Time -- Rachel -- Night Sounds -- A Real Story -- Go Gentle --
• Wildflowers -- Folk Tale -- Death's Blue-Eyed Girl -- To Consider a House -- You Are Odysseus -- Butter -- Knots -- Block -- Drift -- Popcorn -- Sacred to Apollo -- Aspects of Eve -- After Agatha Christie -- Algebra -- Eclipse -- A Symposium: Apples -- Funerary Tower: Han Dynasty -- After -- Egg -- Voices -- In the Old Guerilla War -- Marks -- It Is Raining on the House of Anne Frank -- A Short History of Judaic Thought in the Twentieth Century -- Ice Age -- Fresco -- Bicentennial Winter -- Old Woman -- Caroline -- Consolations -- Geneticist -- Because -- threads to be woven later -- postcard from cape cod -- 25th High School Reunion -- Arithmetic Lesson: Infinity -- The Five Stages of Grief -- Epilogue/Prologue -- Dreams -- McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader -- Secrets -- Waiting for My Life -- In Back Of -- Eyes Only -- Excursion -- Meditation by the Stove -- Who Is It Accuses Us? -- What We Want -- after minor surgery -- Pain -- November --
• Weather Forecast -- blizzard -- There Are Poems -- Response -- 25th Anniversary -- Ethics -- Instructions to the Reader -- PM -- AM -- A Name -- The Printer -- Detail from the Altarpiece at Ghent -- Mosaic -- Ark -- Lists -- In the Middle of a Life -- Water Wheel -- Overture -- In the Kingdom of Midas -- Suffocation -- Japanese Lantern -- Realms of Gold -- Prosody 101 -- Orpheus -- Green Thumb -- Dream Plants -- Nostalgia -- Market Day -- Family Scene: Mid-Twentieth Century -- September -- Routine Mammogram -- Departures -- Duet for One Voice -- The Death of a Parent -- Shadows -- Grudnow -- To a Daughter Leaving Home -- The Dogwoods -- After an Absence -- In the Rearview Mirror -- At the Loom -- Rereading The Odyssey in Middle Age -- Circe -- The Sirens -- The Safecracker -- Ars Poetica -- The Ordinary Weather of Summer -- A Walk before Breakfast -- Erosion -- Snowing: A Triptych -- Family Tree -- The Deathwatch Beetle -- Elegy --
• Something about the Trees -- Fruit of the Tree -- Mother Eve -- On the Question of Free Will -- The Animals -- from The Imperfect Paradise -- Autumn -- The Way the Leaves Keep Falling -- The Myth of Perfectability -- Sculpture Garden -- The Bookstall -- On the Marginality of Poets -- A New Poet -- Lost Luggage -- Unveiling -- Subway -- An Old Song -- The Hat Lady -- Cousins -- Angels -- 1932- -- The Happiest Day -- Balance -- March 27 -- Crocuses -- Misreading Housman -- Gleaning -- The Python -- The Lumberjacks -- Espaliered Pear Trees -- The Book -- Narcissus at 60 -- At Indian River Inlet -- Ideal City -- Camping at the Headlands of the Rappahannock -- Agoraphobia -- Smoke Screen -- Stationary Bicycle -- The English Novel -- the arithmetic of alternation -- The Bronx, 1942 -- Courbet's Still Life with Apples and Pomegranate -- High Summer -- In a Northern Country -- Ghosts -- Old Photograph Album -- The Laws of Primogeniture -- What We Fear Most --
• Flowers -- Snow Showers, a Prothalamion -- Vermilion -- Foreshadowing -- The Apple Shrine -- Hardwood -- Sometimes -- An Early Afterlife -- Index of Titles and First Lines.

ISBN

0393046311

LCCN

97039860

OCLC

• 37579905
• ocm37579905

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries