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 heat killed by external cold. They are dancing through that blackness. They press as if To come closer.
Reviews
"Ostriker's poems illuminate the places where myth and daily life converge... [She] writes with much intelligence, in a language characterized by the clarity of its images and the precision of its rhythms."--Library Journal "Cool, cerebral, studied. Passionate, visceral, immediate. Can the same poet write both kinds of poems? ... Alicia Ostriker is not only writing both kinds of poems-she also is fashioning poems that are cold and fiery at the same time."--San Francisco Chronicle



Book Information
ISBN 9780691013909
Author Alicia Ostriker
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 113g