Alicia Ostriker
Author
Language
English
Description
From A Woman Under the Surface:
MOON AND EARTH
Alicia Ostriker
Of one substance, of one
Matter, they have cruelly
Broken apart. They never will touch
Each other again. The shining
Lovelier and younger
Turns away, a pitiful girl.
She is completely naked
And it hurts. The larger
Motherly one, breathlessly luminous
Emerald, and blue, and white
Traveling mists, suffers
Birth and death, birth
and death, and the shock
Of internal...
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Bucknell lectures in literary theory volume 7
Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English