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Book of Life, The
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 …
Book of Seventy, The
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 \u201cgolden years.\u201d as …
Dancing at the Devil's Party
The opening essay of this collection defines the difference between poetry and propaganda. Succeeding essays explore the meaning of politics, love and the spiritual life in the …
Feminist Revision and the Bible
What happens when women writers re-imagine culture? How do feminists need that ur-text of patriarchy, the Bible? Unwritten volume: Re-thinking teh Bible attempts to re-think …
For the Love of God
Quoting King Solomon’s famous prayer to God at the Temple in Jerusalem, “Behold, the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded,” Alicia …
Imaginary Lover, The
• Winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America With The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Suskin Ostriker takes her place among the most …
Little Space, The
A collection of poetry from one of America's most respected poets offers poems from the last thirty years that find deep and permanent meaning in all aspects of human experience, …
Mother/Child Papers, The
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 …
Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog, The
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 …