Alicia Suskin Ostricker, Author, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Author Rutgers University Press $35 (225p) ISBN 978-0-8135-2125-1
Here acclaimed poet Alicia Ostriker both rereads the Bible from the ``controversial perspective of a twentieth-century Jewish woman'' and creatively interacts with it form a fiercely autobiographical point of view. What results is not another...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Author . Univ. of Pittsburgh $12.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8229-5784-3
Ostriker's reputation rests on her energetic, accessible verse from the 1980s and 1990s (The Imaginary Lover; The Crack in Everything) and on her work as a feminist critic and theorist of poetry by women (Stealing the Language). Her admirers...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Author . Univ. of Pittsburgh $12.95 (136p) ISBN 978-0-8229-5875-8
A long-prominent poet and feminist critic (Stealing the Language
), Ostriker further plumbs subjects of previous work: sectarian violence, urban geography, family history, easel painting and Jewish identity. If Ostriker sacrifices verbal nuance for...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $16.95 (264p) ISBN 978-0-8229-5680-8
The title of this deeply moving collection is from a Blake epigram, ""For we are put on earth a little space/ That we may learn to bear the beams of love."" For Ostriker, too, love and feeling must be endured and false comfort stripped, but this...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $14 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8229-5593-1
Ostriker has long been admired as both a feminist literary critic and a poet. The accomplished poems in her expansive eighth collection are grounded in the details of a woman's daily life and speak with the appeal of an intelligent, sympathetic...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $19.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-8229-3543-8
Despite having published five books of poetry, Ostriker is known primarily for her role in the vanguard of feminist literary criticism. Outspoken, passionate and contentious, she has sparked controversy as a defender of what she regards as an...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Author University of Pittsburgh Press $24.95 (100p) ISBN 978-0-8229-3936-8
Ostriker has long been admired as both a feminist literary critic and a poet. The accomplished poems in her expansive eighth collection are grounded in the details of a woman's daily life and speak with the appeal of an intelligent, sympathetic...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $15.95 trade paper (80p) ISBN 978-0-8229-6291-5
Ostriker (The Volcano Sequence) opens this cycle of persona poems with a quote from Gertrude Stein: “A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.” Each poem’s three stanzas correspond to the eponymous old woman,...
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker. Univ. of Pittsburgh, $30 (232p) ISBN 978-0-8229-4640-3
Drawing from six collections written between 2002 and 2019, this rich selected presents some of Ostriker’s finest poems alongside new work. As Ostriker notes in the preface: “Some stories have endings, and some do not have endings, at least not yet.
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