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The Book of Seventy

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the "golden years." as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late years, curious about what happens in the soul. Out of that curiosity is a new kind of poetry born, an elderstile that has passion and irony, wisdom, folly, clarity and tenderness. In her keen engagement with the self and the world, Ostriker offers us a voice and a perspective that explore the territory of seventy and beyond.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822990954

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Waiting for the Light

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Waiting for the Light

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora, asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle.

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116

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822982471

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9780822982470

The Crack In Everything

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Crack In Everything

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

This volume of poetry from Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of her most ambitious, ranging from laments and celebrations for a flawed world to meditations on art and artists, to a powerful exploration of illness and healing.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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082297939X

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9780822979395

Green Age

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Green Age

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is that rare combination, a writer equally admired as poet and critic. The variety of subjects in Green Age is characteristic of her writing: from the opening poem, "Fifty," funny, courageous, and defiant, to a set of birthday poems for a grown daughter; from emulations of the Persian mystic Rumi, to the provactive "Meditation in Seven Days," whose central assumption is that we may find in the Bible traces of a Canaanite goddess whose worship was forbidden with the advent of patriarchal monotheism. But if her subjects may seem formidable, her poems are not. Ostriker is accessible, witty, daring, and humane, and she has become one of the most praised poets of her generation.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822991748

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9780822991748

The Imaginary Lover

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Imaginary Lover

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

• Winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of AmericaWith The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Ostriker takes her place among the most striking and original poets whose work is informed by feminist consciousness. Her characterization of the best poetry by women, in the New York Times Book Review, aptly describes this book: "intimate rather than remote, passionate rather than distant, defying divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader." To read her poems is to "discover not only more of what it means to be a woman but more of what it means to be human.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822980894

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9780822980896

The Nakedness of the Fathers

Biblical Visions and Revisions

By: Alicia Ostriker

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The Nakedness of the Fathers

Biblical Visions and Revisions

By: Alicia Ostriker

Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends the tradition of arguing with God that commences in the Bible itself and continues now, as it has for centuries, to animate Jewish writing. The difference here is that the voice that debates with God is a woman's. In her introduction, "Entering the Tents, " Ostriker defines the need to struggle against a tradition in which women have been silenced and disempowered - and to recover the female power buried beneath the surface of the biblical texts. In "The Garden, " she reinterprets the mythically complex stories of Creation. Then she considers the stories of "The Fathers, " from Abraham and Isaac to Moses, David, and Solomon - and their wives, mothers, and sisters. In "The Return of the Mothers, " she begins with a radical new interpretation of the book of Esther, includes a meditation on the silenced wife of Job and the idea of justice, and concludes with a fable on the death of God and a prayer to the Shekhinah, the feminine aspect of God. Ostriker refuses to dismiss the Bible as meaningless to women. Instead, in this angry, eloquent, visionary book, she attempts to recover what is genuinely sacred in these sacred texts.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813524474

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9780813524474

The Little Space

Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Little Space

Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

1998 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry1999 Finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry PrizeIn this selection of poems from thirty years of a distinguished writing career, we see the growth of a poet's mind, heart, and spirit as Ostriker struggles to love "this wounded / World that we cannot heal, that is our bride."Whether she probes the meaning of childhood, family, marriage, and motherhood, or art, history, politics, and God; whether she is celebrating sexuality or confronting mortality, the poet includes "whatever I can grasp of human experience within my art—the good and beautiful, the evil and chaotic. I tell my students that they must write what they are afraid to write; and I attempt to do so myself.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822979381

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The Volcano and After

Selected and New Poems 2002-2019

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Volcano and After

Selected and New Poems 2002-2019

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world “as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see,” to the “crack in earth . . . crack in her mind,” from brilliant evocations of art and music to mother-daughter wrestlings, Ostriker’s poetry rings with insistence on beauty and truth. Drawing from six of her previous books, and highlighting a sequence of bold new poems exploring the challenges and absurdities of aging, The Volcano and After is a masterpiece for our time.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822987813

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9780822987819

The Book of Life

Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011

By: Alicia Ostriker

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The Book of Life

Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011

By: Alicia Ostriker

“Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she ‘studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet’s trajectory.” —Marilyn Hacker

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822961814

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A Woman Under the Surface

Poems and Prose Poems

By: Alicia Ostriker

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A Woman Under the Surface

Poems and Prose Poems

By: Alicia Ostriker

From A Woman Under the Surface: MOON AND EARTH Alicia Ostriker ? Of one substance, of one Matter, they have cruelly Broken apart. They never will touch Each other again. The shining Lovelier and younger Turns away, a pitiful girl. She is completely naked And it hurts. The larger Motherly one, breathlessly luminous Emerald, and blue, and white Traveling mists, suffers Birth and death, birth and death, and the shock Of internal heat killed by external cold. They are dancing through that blackness. They press as if To come closer.

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Princeton University Press

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0691225427

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Writing Like a Woman

By: Alicia Ostriker

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Writing Like a Woman

By: Alicia Ostriker

Essays on women poets and on the relationship between gender and creativity

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University of Michigan Press

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0472063472

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The Nakedness of the Fathers

Biblical Visions and Revisions

By: Alicia Ostriker

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Biblical Visions and Revisions

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Writing Like a Woman

By: Alicia Ostriker

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By: Alicia Ostriker

Essays on women poets and on the relationship between gender and creativity

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For the Love of God

The Bible as an Open Book

By: Alicia Ostriker

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For the Love of God

The Bible as an Open Book

By: Alicia Ostriker

For the Love of God is a provocative and inspiring reinterpretation of six essential Biblical texts. Attempting to understand "some of the wildest, strangest, most splendid writing in Western tradition," Alicia Suskin Ostriker shows how the Bible embraces sexuality and skepticism, boundary crossing and challenges to authority, how it illuminates the human psyche and mirrors our own violent times, and how it asks us to make difficult choices in the quest for justice.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813542006

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9780813542003

A Woman Under the Surface

Poems and Prose Poems

By: Alicia Ostriker

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Poems and Prose Poems

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Princeton University Press

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The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers—in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word.

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University of Pittsburgh Press

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0822962918

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The Volcano and After

Selected and New Poems 2002-2019

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Selected and New Poems 2002-2019

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0822987813

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Waiting for the Light

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Waiting for the Light

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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0822982471

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The Crack In Everything

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Crack In Everything

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082297939X

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The Mother/Child Papers

With a new preface by the author

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Mother/Child Papers

With a new preface by the author

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker’s personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into.

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101

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0822978261

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9780822978268

The Imaginary Lover

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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0822980894

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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

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A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

In her raw, unflinching memoir . . . she tells the impassioned, wrenching story of the mental health crisis within her own family and community . . . A searing cry." —New York Times Book Review The Mohawk phrase for depression can be roughly translated to "a mind spread out on the ground." In this urgent and visceral work, Alicia Elliott explores how apt a description that is for the ongoing effects of personal, intergenerational, and colonial traumas she and so many Native people have experienced. Elliott's deeply personal writing details a life spent between Indigenous and white communities, a divide reflected in her own family, and engages with such wide-ranging topics as race, parenthood, love, art, mental illness, poverty, sexual assault, gentrification, and representation. Throughout, she makes thrilling connections both large and small between the past and present, the personal and political. A national bestseller in Canada, this updated and expanded American edition helps us better understand legacy, oppression, and racism throughout North America, and offers us a profound new way to decolonize our minds.

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Melville House

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1612198678

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9781612198675

The Little Space

Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Little Space

Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998

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For the Love of God

The Bible as an Open Book

By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The Bible as an Open Book

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For the Love of God is a provocative and inspiring re-interpretation of six essential Biblical texts: The Song of Songs, the Book of Ruth, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Jonah, and Job. In prose that is personal and probing, analytically acute and compellingly readable, Ostriker sees these writings as "counter-texts," deviating from convention yet deepening and enriching the Bible, our images of God, and our own potential spiritual lives. Attempting to understand "some of the wildest, strangest, most splendid writing in Western tradition," she shows how the Bible embraces sexuality and skepticism, boundary crossing and challenges to authority, how it illuminates the human psyche and mirrors our own violent times, and how it asks us to make difficult choices in the quest for justice.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813548721

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