Books by Linda Pastan

A new collection from a poet long recognized for her "unfailing mastery of her medium" (New York Times).

"Out of the screams and shouts of women demanding liberation rises the clear, true voice of Linda Pastan, who, seemingly, through love and intelligence and a sure sense of her craft, has been liberated all along." -Mona Van Duyn

"Autumnal and subdued...movingly chronicles loss, fear, the passing of time."-Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

"She is always exhilarating for a reader and very educational for a writer. She just happens to be one of the creators among current poets, alive and surprising, and deft." -William Stratford

A Fraction of Darkness is the first book to follow PM/AM: New and Selected Poems, a nominee for the 1982 American Book Award. In this new collection, Linda Pastan continues to fulfill the promise of her five earlier books.

Linda Pastan has continued to share this sense of revelation ever more broadly and deeply, from book to book, with her readers-for, as May Sarton has said, "It is above all her integrity that has made Linda Pastan such a rewarding poet."

"A keen awareness of our place in the cyclic nature of life is the theme that dominates this remarkably clear-sighted and gracefully written collection... Highly recommended." -Library Journal, on Heroes in Disguise