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.
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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.