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The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011
Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she \u2018studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet’s trajectory.\u201d —Marilyn Hacker
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The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011
Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she \u2018studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet’s trajectory.\u201d —Marilyn Hacker
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The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011

The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011
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The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011

The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she \u2018studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet’s trajectory.\u201d —Marilyn Hacker

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822978350
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 01/29/2012
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 112
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

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, 1979–2011; 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.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface Part I Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway Old Men Born in the USA The Marriage Nocturne Hunger Elegy for Allen West Fourth Street At the Revelation Restaurant Grandchild Part III A Meditation in Seven Days Kol Nidre The Eighth and Thirteenth Holocaust Three Women Who Saves a Life: Poem Beginning with a Line by Fitzgerald / Hemingway Diaspora Listening to Public Radio Poem Sixty Years after Auschwitz Part IV - From the volcano sequence psalm fire judgment during the bombing of Kosovo the fast the shekhinah as exile the shekhinah as mute the shekhinah as amnesiac dark smile seasonal psalm psalm psalm Part V Lamenting the Inevitable The Bride Tearing the Poem Up and Eating It Divrei: The Settlers What Is Needed after Food Part VI The Book of Life Notes Acknowledgments
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Poetry
American Poetry
20th Century American Poetry
21st Century American Poetry
Other American Poetry
American poetry->20th century
American poetry->21st century
American poetry->Jewish authors
American poetry->Women authors->20th century
American poetry->Women authors->21st century

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