1998 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry1999 Finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize 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 grasp of human experience within my art—the good and beautiful, the evil and chaotic. I tell my students that they must write what they are afraid to write; and I attempt to do so myself."
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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.