Linda Pastan published "The Fi...

Linda Pastan published "The Five Stages of Grief" in the Spring 1977 issue of Chicago Review, shortly before it became the title piece of poetry of her 1978 collection. That part won the di Castagnola Award. PASTAN lately wrote to us about this poem:

I wrote "The Five Stages of Grief" at a time when a terminate friend's traumatic divorce coincided with my reading of Elizabeth Kubler Ros who had defined those stages. It present the appearanceed to me that my friend's reaction to the los of a spouse followed the stages single in kind is said to move through when coping with one's acknowledge imminent death or