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Books by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
  | | The Book of Seventy(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 87 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6051-5, ISBN: 0-8229-6051-6 "Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the “golden years.” as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late years, curious about what happens in the soul. Out of that curiosity is a new kind of poetry born, an elderstile that has passion and irony, wisdom, folly, clarity and tenderness. In her ..." |
 | | The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6291-5, ISBN: 0-8229-6291-8 "This book by a major American poet is for poetry readers at all levels, academic and non-academic. It is a sequence of poems that will surprise and delight readers - in the voices of an old woman full of memories, a glamorous tulip, and an earthy dog who always has the last word." |
 | | For the Love of God(1st Edition) The Bible as an Open Book by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2009 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4503-5, ISBN: 0-8135-4503-X ""The perfect antidote to fundamentalist readings of the Bible, For the Love of God artfully conveys the multiple meanings that can be gleaned from biblical texts."-Judith Plaskow, author of Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective "No one who reads this amazing, brilliantly written book will ever read the Bible the same way again."-Elaine Pagels, professor of religion, Princeton University "Through prose that is de ..." |
 | | The Volcano Sequence(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5784-3, ISBN: 0-8229-5784-1 "A bold, erotic, and spiritual collection of poetry from well-respected poet and critic Alicia Suskin Ostriker, whose previous two books were both National Book Award finalists." |
 | | The Nakedness of the Fathers(1st Edition) Biblical Visions and Revisions by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 1997 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2447-4, ISBN: 0-8135-2447-4 "Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends the tradition of arguing with God that commences in the Bible itself and continues now, as it has for c ..." |
 | | The Volcano and After(1st Edition) Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Hardcover, 214 Pages, Published 2020 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-4640-3, ISBN: 0-8229-4640-8 "Description to come." |
 | | The Little Space(1st Edition) Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998 (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5680-8, ISBN: 0-8229-5680-2 "In 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 g ..." |
 | | The Imaginary Lover(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1986 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5385-2, ISBN: 0-8229-5385-4 "• Winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America With The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Suskin Ostriker takes her place among the most striking and original poets whose work is informed by feminist consciousness. Her characterization of the best poetry by women, in the New York Times Book Review, aptly describes this book: “intimate rather than remote, passionate rather than distant, defying divis ..." |
 | | Writing Like a Woman(6th Edition) (Poets on Poetry) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1983 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06347-5, ISBN: 0-472-06347-2 ""'If we have the habit of freedom and the courage to write exactly as we think,' as Woolf puts it in A Room of One's Own, writing like a woman simply means writing like what one actually is, in sickness and health, richer and poorer, belly and bowels, the consonants and the vowels too. We may have a general sense that women poets are more likely than men, at the present time, to write in detail about their bodies; to take power relation ..." |
 | | The Five Scrolls(1st Edition) The Song of Songs, The Book of Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, The Book of Esther by John F. Thornton, Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2000 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-375-72494-7, ISBN: 0-375-72494-X "The five books of the Hebrew Bible known--collectively as the Five Scrolls--are among the most universally revered books of the Old Testament and are considered "wells of living water" from which flow the intense spirituality of deep Jewish piety. Here, published together for the first time in a trade edition and ordered according to their use in services during the year, are Canticle of Canticles, The Book of Ruth, Lamentations, Eccle ..." |
 | | Dancing at the Devil's Party(1st Edition) Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (Poets On Poetry) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 136 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-06696-4, ISBN: 0-472-06696-X "This volume of essays celebrates poetry that aims to change the world, whether through engagement with political issues, reimagining the meanings of love, recasting our relationship with nature; or through new relationships with our spiritual traditions. Alicia Ostriker's opening essay, defining the difference between poetry and propaganda, surveys the artistic accomplishments of the women's poetry movement. Succeeding essays explore th ..." |
 | | Stealing the Language(Reprint) The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 315 Pages, Published 1987 by Beacon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6303-3, ISBN: 0-8070-6303-7 "Probes the origins and significance of contemporary women's poetry and examines the works of such diverse poets as Denise Levertov, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maxine Kumin, Lucille Clifton, May Swenson, and Judy Grahn" |
 | | No Heaven(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2005 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5875-8, ISBN: 0-8229-5875-9 "Alicia Suskin Ostriker's voice has long been acknowledged as a major force in American poetry. In No Heaven, her eleventh collection, she takes a hint from John Lennon's "Imagine" to wrestle with the world as it is: "no hell below us, / above us only sky." It is a world of cities, including New York, London, Jerusalem, and Berlin, where the poet can celebrate pickup basketball, peace marches, and the energy of graffiti. It is also a wor ..." |
 | | For the Love of God The Bible as an Open Book by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Hardcover, 164 Pages, Published 2007 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-4200-3, ISBN: 0-8135-4200-6 "Quoting King Solomon’s famous prayer to God at the Temple in Jerusalem, “Behold, the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded,” Alicia Suskin Ostriker posits a God who cannot be contained by dogma and doctrine. Troubled by the way the Bible has become identified in our culture with a monolithic authoritarianism, Ostriker focuses instead on the extraordinary variability of Biblical writing.For ..." |
 | | The Crack In Everything(1st Edition) (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 1996 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-5593-1, ISBN: 0-8229-5593-8 "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." |
 | | The Nakedness of the Fathers(1st Edition) Biblical Visions and Revisions by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Hardcover, 225 Pages, Published 1994 by Rutgers University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8135-2125-1, ISBN: 0-8135-2125-4 "Like much twentieth-century feminist writing today, this book crosses the boundaries of genre. Biblical interpretation combines with fantasy, autobiography, and poetry. Politics joins with eroticism. Irreverence coexists with a yearning for the sacred. Scholarship contends with heresy. Most excitingly, the author continues and extends the tradition of arguing with God that commences in the Bible itself and continues now, as it has for c ..." |
 | | Feminist Revision and the Bible(1st Edition) The Unwritten Volume by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1993 by Wiley-Blackwell ISBN-13: 978-0-631-18798-1, ISBN: 0-631-18798-7 "What happens when women writers imagine culture? What is the relation of the feminist writer to the male tradition? Feminist Revision and the Bible extends the feminist examination of western literature to the founding document of patriarchal culture, the Bible. At the same time, it re-thinks certain customary assumptions about feminism and about the Bible, in the light of poetic 'readings' of biblical texts by 19th and 20th century wom ..." |
 | | Songs A Book Of Poems(1st Edition) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, Published 1969 by Holt Rinehart ISBN-13: 978-0-03-081248-4, ISBN: 0-03-081248-8 "Soft cover book titled SONGS: A Book of Poems by Alicia Osriker (1969)" |
 | | The Mother/Child Papers(Reprint) With a new preface by the author (Pitt Poetry Series) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 2009 by University Of Pittsburgh Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-6033-1, ISBN: 0-8229-6033-8 "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." |
 | | Dancing at the Devil's Party Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic (Poets On Poetry) by Alicia Suskin Ostriker Hardcover, 136 Pages, Published 2000 by University Of Michigan Press ISBN-13: 978-0-472-09696-1, ISBN: 0-472-09696-6 "This volume of essays celebrates poetry that aims to change the world, whether through engagement with political issues, reimagining the meanings of love, recasting our relationship with nature; or through new relationships with our spiritual traditions. Alicia Ostriker's opening essay, defining the difference between poetry and propaganda, surveys the artistic accomplishments of the women's poetry movement. Succeeding essays explore th ..." |
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