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Winter 1991 • Vol. XIII No. 1 • Poetry |

Guilt

By Linda Pastan

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Linda Pastan is the author of numerous books of poetry including Traveling Light (Norton & Co, 2011). Her fourteenth collection, Insomnia, is forthcoming. She has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, and in 2003 she won the Ruth Lilly prize for lifetime achievement.

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Elegy

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The Crossing

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