Green Age (Pitt Poetry Series) - Hardcover

Ostriker, Alicia Suskin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822936240 ISBN 13: 9780822936244

Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 1989

About this title

About the Author:

Alicia Ostriker is the author of seven volumes of poetry, as well as "Vision and Verse in William Blake" and an annotated edition of Blake's "Complete Poems," Her work as a feminist critic includes "Writing like a Woman" and the widely influential and controversial "Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America."

From Publishers Weekly:

In her rich seventh collection, poet and critic Ostriker ( The Imaginary Lover ; Vision and Verse in William Blake ) examines the complexities of human relationships with an intimate tone and a rhythmic sense of immediacy perhaps most evident in work discussing mothers and children. Observing a daughter's lonesome isolation, the speaker in "A Birthday Suite" notes that "you knew you were / The final piece of fruit / Left in a festive bowl. . . . / A solitary apple, unripe, stunted / But keeping busy catalyzing the bitterness / Under its peel . . . ." Ostriker's range, however, is broad and rewarding: she raises issues--sexual, religious--relevant both to contemporary and ancient women. Striking throughout is the poet's tendency to sympathize and nurture, affirming life despite its necessary pains: "Friend, I could say / I've been alive a half a dozen moments / but that's not true / I've been alive my entire time / on this earth / I've been alive."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0822936240
• ISBN 13: 9780822936244
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 75