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WHEN THE BOMB DROPS, a woman will watch from the banks of the Potomac, recording the colors of the clouds after the first blinding flash. She is Linda Pastan, author of five poetry collections including the new PM:AM: New and Selected Poems...
...exploring in depth some of the social roles--mother, tourist, Jew--she has accepted. Pastan gives her writing the special vitality that comes only from external matter. The poems in PM:AM are always reaching out beyond conventional scope, grabbing onto things that exist wholly apart from the poet and her realm of existence...
...Pastan's poems take the other exit, searching for hope and continuity among the remnants of more joyous times. She seeks strength in the multitude of roles a person plays as social relationships grow more complex, and her poems find solace for most woes in mathematics, astronomy, gynecology, and other surprising images...
...Drift," Pastan compares the movement of two sleepy lovers to the phenomenon of continental drift. A scientist would mumble about geology to explain a concept that always shocks people the first time they hear it. Conventional approaches to everything are dissolving, information is exploding, and the earth's very continents are slowly moving apart. Pastan dismisses the scientist's wishy-washy explanations simply: "It is natural law this drift...