Almost an Elegy: New and Later Selected Poems

“[Pastan] is a poet of a hundred small delights, celebrations, responses, satisfactions, pleasures.” —Hudson Review

A moving and incandescent volume from a poet celebrated for her “unfailing mastery of her medium” (New York Times Book Review).

In poems of graceful lyricism and penetrating observation, award-winning poet Linda Pastan sheds new light on the complexities of ordinary life and the rising tide of mortality. Drawing from Pastan’s five most recent volumes and including over thirty...