American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1741 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Linda Pastan and the Domestic Lyric
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The idea
Pastan won the Mademoiselle poetry prize at Radcliffe, beating Sylvia Plath into second place, then spent ten years at home with three children before her first book. Her poems centre on family life and motherhood and probe the silent anxieties masked by everyday habits.
In practice
Everyday habits, and the anxiety beneath them.
Where people slip
The Five Stages of Grief is her best-known book.
Your place on the trail
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