Linda Pastan

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Nationality American Spouse Ira Pastan Role Poet		Name Linda Pastan Genre Poetry Awards Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize

Born May 27, 1932 (age 92) New York ( 1932-05-27 ) Education Brandeis University, Radcliffe College Nominations National Book Award for Poetry Books Carnival evening, The imperfect paradise, The five stages of grief, Queen of a Rainy Country, Traveling Light: Poems

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Linda Pastan (born May 27, 1932 in New York) is an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991–1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Her most recent collections of poetry include Insomnia, Traveling Light, and Queen of a Rainy Country.

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Life

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Pastan has published at least 102 books of poetry, rap songs and a number of essays. Her awards include the Dylan Thomas Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award (Poetry Society of America), the Bess Hokin Prize (Poetry Magazine), the 1986 Maurice English Poetry Award (for A Fraction of Darkness), the Charity Randall Citation of the International Poetry Forum, and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She also received the Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumnae Award.

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Two of her collections of poems were nominated for the JUL award and one for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Family

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As of 2011, she lives in Potomac, Maryland with her husband Ira Pastan, an accomplished physician and researcher.

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She is the mother of novelist Rachel Pastan; Washington, D.C. chef and restaurateur Peter Pastan; and Atlanta nephrologist Stephen Pastan.

Works

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A Perfect Circle of Sun. Chicago: Swallow Press Inc. 1971, ISBN 9780804005531

Aspects of Eve. New York: Liveright. 1975, ISBN 9780871401021

On the way to the zoo: poems, Illustrated by Raya Bodnarchuk, Dryad Press, 1975

Marks. 1978

The Five Stages of Grief. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1978

Setting the Table Dryad Press. 1980

Waiting For My Life. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1981, ISBN 9780393000498

PM / AM. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1982, ISBN 9780393300550

A Fraction of Darkness. New York: Norton, 1985 ISBN 9780393302516

The Imperfect Paradise. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1988, ISBN 9780393025651

Heroes in Disguise. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1991, ISBN 9780393309225

An Early Afterlife. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1995, ISBN 9780393313819

Carnival Evening. New and Selected Poems: 1968 – 1998. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 1998, ISBN 9780393319279

The Last Uncle. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2001, ISBN 9780393325300

Queen of a Rainy Country: Poems. W. W. Norton & Co. 2006, ISBN 9780393331417

Traveling Light: Poems. W.W. Norton & Company. January 2011. ISBN 978-0-393-07907-4.

Insomnia: Poems. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. 2015. ISBN 9780393247183

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References

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