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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.
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"Alicia Ostriker continues to grapple with and celebrate the life of a woman-wife, mother, lover, friend, teacher, and citizen of the world. Because of her age, as well as the precariousness of our times, Ostriker seems to speak even more forcefully, as if a confrontation with ultimate loss has engendered a vibrant flowering. Her devotion to the physical world-to what gives beauty and value to our
Toi Derricotte
"In a voice absolutely her own-wild, earthy, irreverent, full of humor and surprise-Ostriker takes on nothing less than what it feels like to be alive."
Joan Larkin
"These capacious poems are smart, passionate, witty, acutely observant, heart-stabbing. They contain multitudes, embracing both 'hot beauty' and 'thick and magnificent rage,' 'the impulse to destroy' and 'the body...keen for pleasure again,' along with a bounty of other precise nuances of thought and perception. Alicia Ostriker binds together the contradictions of our contemporary lives in an insi
Ellen Bass