The Volcano and After
Author | : Alicia Suskin Ostriker |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780822987819 |
ISBN-13 | : 0822987813 |
Rating | : 4/5 (813 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Volcano and After written by Alicia Suskin Ostriker and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world “as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see,” to the “crack in earth . . . crack in her mind,” from brilliant evocations of art and music to mother-daughter wrestlings, Ostriker’s poetry rings with insistence on beauty and truth. Drawing from six of her previous books, and highlighting a sequence of bold new poems exploring the challenges and absurdities of aging, The Volcano and After is a masterpiece for our time.