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Waiting for the light / Alicia Suskin Ostriker.
LIBRA PS3565.S84 W35 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostriker, Alicia, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 83 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora, asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle.""--Amazon.
- Contents:
- August morning, upper broadway
- The light
- How fortunate the boy
- Q&A: red red rose
- Manahatta
- The first snowfall
- The glory of cities
- Bangladesh: the driver
- Guyaana: so nice
- Times square
- Dry hours: a golden shovel exercise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 81-82).
- National Jewish Book Awards - Poetry, Winner, 2017
- ISBN:
- 082296452X
- 9780822964520
- OCLC:
- 958781637
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