Ethics Summary
Linda Pastan

Everything you need to understand or teach Ethics by Linda Pastan.

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Ethics Summary

"Ethics" appears in Linda Pastan's sixth volume of poetry, Waiting for My Life (1981), a title that hints at the tensions for which the New York-born poet is best known: the challenges of living in that "waiting" place between the magic and the tedium of the ordinary; between the artistic and the domestic life; between the rewards and the losses of aging and death. A kind of "aesthetic ethic" itself emerges from the body...

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