The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostriker, Alicia.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

1998 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry1999 Finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry PrizeIn this selection of poems from thirty years of a distinguished writing career, we see the growth of a poet's mind, heart, and spirit as Ostriker struggles to love "this wounded / World that we cannot heal, that is our bride."Whether she probes the meaning of childhood, family, marriage, and motherhood, or art, history, politics, and God; whether she is celebrating sexuality or confronting mortality, the poet includes "whatever I can grasp of human experience within my art-the good and beautiful, the evil and chaotic. I tell my students that they must write what they are afraid to write; and I attempt to do so myself."

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Early Poems (1968-1974)

The Anniversary

Excerpts from Once More Out of Darkness

Wrinkly Lady Dancer

A Dream of Springtime (1979)

Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway

Sonnet. To Tell the Truth

Annie, Aphrodite, and the Elevator

Portraite de l'Artiste

Portrait of a Man

The Fool Stands Up to Teach King Lear Again

The Mother/Child Papers (1980)

Cambodia

Excerpts from "Mother/Child"

Mother/Child: Coda

Excerpt from "Propaganda Poem: Maybe for Some Young Mamas"

The Leaf Pile

The Change

In the Dust

His Speed and Strength

A Woman Under the Surface (1982)

The Waiting Room

After the Shipwreck

The Crazy Lady Speaking

The Exchange

The History of America

Dream: The Disclosure

Homecoming

The Impulse of Singing

Excerpt from "Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth"

The Runner

A Minor Van Gogh (He Speaks):

Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge

The Singing School

The Imaginary Lover (1986)

Cows

Horses

Staring at the Pacific, and Swimming in It

Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes

Mother in Airport Parking Lot

The Marriage Nocturne

Surviving

Meeting the Dead

Listen

A Question of Time

Years

I Brood About Some Concepts, for Example

Taking the Shuttle with Franz

Everywoman Her Own Theology

Poem Beginning with a Line by Fitzgerald/Hemingway

The War of Men and Women

A Clearing by a Stream

Letting the Doves Out

Green Age (1989)

Fifty

A Young Woman, a Tree

Helium

George in Hospital

Excerpts from "A Birthday Suite"

Stream

The Pure Products of America

Windshield

The Bride

The Death Ghazals

A Meditation in Seven Days

Excerpts from "Homage to Rumi"

To Love Is

Move

The Crack in Everything (1996)

The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz

Boil

Marie at Tea.

Migrant

Globule

Nude Descending

The Studio (Homage to Alice Neel)

Appearance and Reality

The Boys, the Broomhandle, the Retarded Girl

The Eighth and Thirteenth

Saturday Night

The Book of Life

Middle-Aged Woman at a Pond

The Nature of Beauty

The Class

Locker Room Conversation

Jonah's Gourd Vine

Still Life: A Glassful of Zinnias on My Daughter's Kitchen Table

Excerpts from "The Mastectomy Poems"

Uncollected and New Poems (1980-1998)

April One

From the Prado Rotunda: The Family of Charles IV, and Others

A Chinese Fan Painting

O'Keeffe

Anselm Kiefer

Holocaust

Diaspora

Millennial Polka

About Time

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979388

0822979381

OCLC:

606997812