Description
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, wi
Reviews
Here is a hard, obdurate, elusive sort of beauty. Alicia Ostriker is not only one of our very best poets but one of our most crucial. - Joyce Carol Oates ""Alicia Ostriker is a fool for beauty. She says so on 'West Fourth Street.' She is also a fool for wisdom but, like a smart sage, she does it slant. I'm shocked by these poems, shocked by how good they are. How many skins has she shed to get here? Just take a look at a short poem called 'Dear God' or 'Born in the USA' or fifteen others. Amazing."" - Gerald Stern ""The Book of Seventy will speak to everyone: Alicia Ostriker's honest voice, her humor, her wisdom, her gutsiness; her scholarly, longing mind; her knowing body: 'my mind is a cervix / I can imagine anything'; and from the first page to the last, her long-recognized courage in facing down - even welcoming - just about everything."" - Jean Valentine
Awards
Winner of National Jewish Book Award (Poetry) 2009.
Book Information
ISBN 9780822960515
Author Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Format Paperback
Page Count 72
Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press