Creator Bio
Linda Pastan
1932–2023
Linda Pastan was born in New York City and was a poet and essayist. She served as an instructor at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, was poet laureate of Maryland from 1991 until 1995, and was the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1958 Dylan Thomas Poetry Award and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Passover
I set my table with metaphor:
the curling parsley—green sign nailed to the doors
of God’s underground; salt of desert and eyes;
the roasted shank bone of a Pascal lamb,
relic of sacrifice and…
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The Cossacks
For Jews, the Cossacks are always coming.
Therefore I think the sun spot on my arm
is melanoma. Therefore I celebrate
New Year’s Eve by counting
my annual dead.
My mother, when she was dying…