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The old woman, the tulip, and the dog / Alicia Suskin Ostriker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostriker, Alicia, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers--in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word.
- Contents:
- The blessing of the old woman, the tulip, and the dog
- The vow
- Deer walk upon our mountains
- Wrong about the horse
- The drink triptych
- The panel discussion : how mistaken is Sophocles
- The promise triptych
- Song
- The beautiful morning triptych
- The wind that blows through me
- What we love
- Prayer
- April
- Soften and melt
- In every life
- Try to
- The fear triptych
- Ridiculous
- The outsiders
- Anger I : gray cement
- The moment on stage I
- Church
- The Synagogue of the ear of corn
- They speak of race
- Awakening
- I want to live
- What is know seen was once only imagined
- Bright star and devil moon
- Snow day
- The sorrow triptych
- The arts
- The moment on stage II
- Anger II : the rape
- Liberty
- To a pregnant woman
- The beginning of time
- Sweet chariot
- Brightness falls from the air
- In war time
- Paw on your lap
- Many lives
- Summertime.
- Notes:
- Poetry.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822979654
- 0822979659
- OCLC:
- 889304554
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