Alicia Suskin Ostriker

The Volcano and After (eBook, ePUB)

Selected and New Poems 2002-2019

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see,"e; to the "e;crack in earth . . . crack in her mind,"e; 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. OLD WOMAN AT THE RIVEROn the bank of the riverI slide inside my sleeping bagsleep is good if I am notkept awake by coughingthe sound of the water soothestime passes and does not passwhen I am better I will sitand meditate for a whilethere may be birds to listen tothen I will step down the bankand put my naked foot in the waterwhich will shock at first,being so cold, so swift.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822987819
• Artikelnr.: 72255321

Autorenporträt

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 19792011; and The Book of Seventy, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors. Ostriker teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.