Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she /u2018studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet’s trajectory./u201d
—Marilyn Hacker
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<b>Alicia Suskin Ostriker</b> is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, <i>The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011;</i> and <i>The Book of Seventy</i>, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors. Ostriker teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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