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The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011

The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011 - Paperback

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alicia Suskin OstrikerSeries:Pitt PoetryPublish date:2012-01-15Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822961819ISBN-10:822961814UPC:9780822961819Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCT70C9V83
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
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Pittsburgh PressISBN-13:9780822961819ISBN-10:822961814UPC:9780822961819Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCT70C9V83

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of America's premier visionary poets and critics. She is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including The Book of Seventy; The Mother/Child Papers; No Heaven; the volcano sequence; and The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998, as well as several books on the Bible. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Ostriker is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of Drew University.


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