The mother-child papers / with a new preface by the author, 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.

Families--Poetry.

Families.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker's personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

I. Cambodia

II. Mother/Child

III. The Spaces

Letter to M.

Song of the Abandoned One

Macbeth and the Kids in the Cabin at Chester

Things to Remember of Eve

In the Autumn of My Thirty-Seventh Birthday

Exile

The Spaces

Propaganda Poem: Maybe for Some Young Mamas

The Leaf Pile

The Seven Samurai, The Dolly, and Mary Cassatt

The Change

One, to Fly

In the Dust

His Speed and Strength

IV: This Power

One Marries

This Power

Dream.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822978268

0822978261

OCLC:

835768592