An Early Afterlife

An Early Afterlife

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Whether her subject is the return of childhood ghosts or the metaphor of baseball, whether it is the impact of landscape or the vagaries of family love, Pastan continues to explore and illuminate the mysteries and dangers beneath the common surface of ordinary life. As the Jerusalem Post put it, 'She has, in large measure, fulfilled Emerson's dream-the revelation of 'the m...more
Paperback, 88 pages
Published February 1st 1995 by W. W. Norton & Company (first published January 1st 1995)
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Kevin
I'm not the poetry type person, and I skipped some pages and read some poems really fast but I liked it well enough. It was pretty interesting. Sort of dark, and had a lot of poems about flowers.
Cindy
I've found a new poet that I really like.
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