Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. She was born in New York on May 27, 1932. Today, she lives in Potomac, Maryland with her husband Ira Pastan, an accomplished physician and researcher.
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.
Linda Pastan has published at least 12 books of poetry 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.
Two of her collections of poems were nominated for the National Book Award and one for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
Poems by this Poet
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| A New Poet | 30 July 2013 |
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| Emily Dickinson | 31 July 2013 |
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| Ethics | 5 September 2014 |
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| Funerary Tower: Han Dynasty | 19 May 2014 |
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| Home For Thanksgiving | 31 July 2013 |
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| Jump Cabling | 31 July 2013 |
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| Love Poem | 31 July 2013 |
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| Marks | 31 July 2013 |
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| Meditation By The Stove | 31 July 2013 |
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| Pears | 31 July 2013 |
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