| Author: | Alicia Suskin Ostriker | ISBN: | 9780822979388 |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press | Publication: | November 15, 1998 |
| Imprint: | University of Pittsburgh Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Alicia Suskin Ostriker |
| ISBN: | 9780822979388 |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Publication: | November 15, 1998 |
| Imprint: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Language: | English |
In 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.”
In 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.”
