{"product_id":"an-early-afterlife-poems-paperback","title":"An Early Afterlife: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda Pastan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The world wounds us \/ with is beauty, as if it knew \/ we had to leave it soon,\" Linda Pastan writes in \"In a Northern Country,\" and the poems in this new volume are full of those wounds, that beauty, 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 \u003cem\u003eJerusalem Post\u003c\/em\u003e put it, \"She has, in large measure, fulfilled Emerson's dream-the revelation of 'the miraculous in the common.\" Or, as she herself writes in one of her new poems, \"Long after Eden, the imagination flourishes with all its unruly weeds.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether 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 miraculous in the common.' Or, as she herself writes in one of her new poems, 'Long after Eden, the imagination flourishes with all its unruly weeds.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.23 x 8.53 x 5.53 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47453775462578,"sku":"9780393313819","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/e4b2565eaacf43188266a8f54ef20a8b.webp?v=1778837518","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/an-early-afterlife-poems-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}