false 21851663 87259 660664 0393062473 9780393062472 10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176856683m/660664.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176856683s/660664.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/660664.Queen_of_a_Rainy_Country_Poems 4.05 22 A new collection from "one of the real treasures in poetry of our time" (Washington Post).

Linda Pastan writes, "the art that mattered / was the life led fully / stanza by swollen stanza." That life is portrayed here, from memories of the poet's earliest childhood and the ambiguities of marriage and love to the surprises that come with age, always with a consciousness of what is happening in the larger world.]]> 13146 4.07 149 25 2006 4 0 false Wed May 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 08:23:09 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 09:37:11 -0700 2008