Green Age.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ostriker, Alicia.

Series:

Pitt poetry.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.

Summary:

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is that rare combination, a writer equally admired as poet and critic. The variety of subjects in Green Age is characteristic of her writing: from the opening poem, "Fifty, " funny, courageous, and defiant, to a set of birthday poems for a grown daughter; from emulations of the Persian mystic Rumi, to the provactive "Meditation in Seven Days, " whose central assumption is that we may find in the Bible traces of a Canaanite goddess whose worship was forbidden with the advent of patriarchal monotheism. But if her subjects may seem formidable, her poems are not. Ostriker is accessible, witty, daring, and humane, and she has become one of the most praised poets of her generation.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I

Fifty

A Young Woman, a Tree

Wanting to Be in Love as in Sunlight

Helium

George in Hospital

Jersey Transit

Moth in April

A Birthday Suite

Before Dawn

The Secret Sharer

Watching the Feeder

American Loneliness

II

Stream

Hating the World

The Pure Products of America

Windshield

The Death Ghazals

You Who Deny: A Harangue

A Day of Heavy Fog

The Bride

A Meditation in Seven Days

III

Homage to Rumi: Seven Poems

To Love Is

Words for a Wedding

To One in Mourning

Move

Notes.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

9780822991748

0822991748