The Crack In Everything.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostriker, Alicia.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

American literature--20th century.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

Summary:

This volume of poetry from Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of her most ambitious, ranging from laments and celebrations for a flawed world to meditations on art and artists, to a powerful exploration of illness and healing.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I

The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz

Boil

Marie at Tea

Alice Before Her Widowhood

Revolution as Desire

Surfer Days

Migrant

The Boys, the Broom Handle, the Retarded Girl

In Our Time: A Poem to Aphrodite

Triptych

At the Van Gogh Museum

Nude Descending

The Studio (Homage to Alice Neel)

Appearance and Reality

Globule

The Orange Cat

The Death of the Poet, Hartford 1955

Deaf Cities

Anecdotes Without Flowers: 1919

The Russian Army Goes Into Baku

The Eighth and Thirteenth

Somalia

Saturday Night

Disco

II

The Book of Life

III

Neoplatonic Riff

After Illness

Middle-Aged Woman at a Pond

The Figure of Metaphor

Lockout

The Nature of Beauty

The Class

Frowning at Emily

The Vocabulary of Joy

Locker Room Conversation

Jonah's Gourd Vine

Berkeley: Youth and Age

After the Reunion

Translation

The Glassblower's Breath

Spoon

Extraterrestrial: A Wedding Poem for Nina and John, January 2, 1989

Taylor Lake

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

IV

The Mastectomy Poems

1. The Bridge

2. The Gurney

3. Riddle: Post-Op

4. Mastectomy

5. What Was Lost

6. December 31

7. Wintering

8. Normal

9. Healing

10. Years of Girlhood (for My Students)

11. The River

12. Epilogue: Nevertheless

Acknowledgments

About the Author.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822979395

082297939X

OCLC:

603785396