PM/AM: New and Selected Poems

PM/AM: New and Selected Poems

<p><strong>“In her work there is a return to the role of the poet as it served the human race for centuries: to fuel our thinking, show us our world in new ways, and to get us to feel more intensely.” The rightness of this summary of Linda Pastan’s poetic career―in the <em>San Francisco Review of Books</em>―will be immediately clear to readers of her new volume, <em>PM/AM</em>.</strong></p><em>Instructions to the Reader</em>: Come. Suspend willingly or not your disbelief and with empty pockets enter the room of the story. Warm your fingers at this candle which is only the stub of a dream and at any time may flicker or go out. Here fire consumes itself with paper and pencil for kindling; here a unicorn waits in the corner its musical horn ready. When I tell you this story is pure fact you will want to leave the room. Stay awhile.