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The book of seventy / Alicia Suskin Ostriker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostriker, Alicia, author.
- Series:
- Pitt poetry series.
- Pitt Poetry Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (88 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Poems that explore the territory of advancing age--its tragicomedies, its passions, its engagement with the world.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- I
- Approaching Seventy
- Stream-Entering
- Insomnia
- Lymphoma
- The Surgeon
- In Sickness and Health
- Neurologist
- Family: Attempted Speech
- West Fourth Street
- Late Winter Rain
- II
- Desire and Joy
- The Married Man
- The Plateau
- Our Dead Friend
- Sonnetina: The Storm
- Heaven
- Honey of Generation
- III
- The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog
- Apollo to Marsyas
- Persephone to Demeter
- Kali in the Sackler Wing
- Laïs to Aphrodite
- Artemis to Aphrodite
- Demeter to Persephone
- Lord Krishna to the Summer Handyman
- Gaia Regards Her Children
- Prayer in Autumn
- IV
- Drone
- Born in the USA
- Listening to Public Radio
- Laundry
- The Snowfall
- Two Poems
- A Theme for Charles Ives
- Dear God
- Almanac
- Ars Poetica: Three Poems
- Zeno
- Notes
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822990956
- 0822990954
- OCLC:
- 867791069
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