{"product_id":"an-early-afterlife-poems-9780393313819","title":"An Early Afterlife: Poems","description":"\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Linda Pastan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.53w x 0.23d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393313819","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45090098053257,"sku":"9780393313819","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_fa962bb6-18e8-4fb6-93c2-e627616b2931.jpg?v=1766477998","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/an-early-afterlife-poems-9780393313819","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}