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.
OLD WOMAN AT THE RIVER On the bank of the river I slide inside my sleeping bag sleep is good if I am not kept awake by coughing the sound of the water soothes time passes and does not pass when I am better I will sit and meditate for a while there may be birds to listen to then I will step down the bank and put my naked foot in the water which will shock at first, being so cold, so swift.
About author(s): Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic.
She is the author of sixteen previous poetry collections, including The Book of Seventy and Waiting for the Light , both winners of the National Jewish Book Award, and The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog .
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.
Her critical work includes the now-classic Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America , and other books on poetry and on the Bible.
A Distinguished Professor Emerita of Rutgers University, Ostriker is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and the New York State Poet Laureate.
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University Of Pittsburgh Press The volcano and after: selected and new poems 2002-2019, hardcover/alicia suskin ostriker
