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The volcano and after, selected and new poems, 2002-2019, Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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The volcano and after

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Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Pitt poetry series

selected and new poems, 2002-2019

"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. OLD WOMAN AT THE RIVER On the bank of the river I slide inside my sleeping bag sleep is good if I am not kept awake by coughing the sound of the water soothes time passes and does not pass when I am better I will sit and meditate for a while there may be birds to listen to then I will step down the bank and put my naked foot in the water which will shock at first, being so cold, so swift."--, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note:, The Volcano Sequence (2002), Prelude: Volcano, Fugue: Mother, The Yearning, Psalm (excerpt), Theodicy: A Dialogue, Call And Response, Our Mothers: A Correspondence, The Shekhinah as Mute, Nevertheless She Moves, Bruriah, The Volcano Breathes, Psalm (excerpt), I Decide to Call You "Being", Seasonal, Interlude: The Avenue of the Americas, Memory, About to Sell Your House, Rewind, Physical Examination, Memory, No Heaven (2005), Vocation, Birdcall, Pickup, Liking It, Crosstown, May Rain, Princeton, Running Out the Clock, The Speech of the Creature, Mid-February, Caravaggio: The Painting of Force and Violence, The Kiss of Judas, Rembrandt: Work and Love, Cosi Fan Tutte: Of Desire and Delight, Schumann, Op. 16: The Greater Happiness, An Album of Chinese Fan Paintings, A Walker in the City I, A Voice at the Rally, The Window, at the Moment of Flame, Poem Sixty Years after Auschwitz, Hunger, Elegy before the War (excerpts), Fix, Daffodils, The Book of Seventy (2009), Approaching Seventy (excerpts), Insomnia, Honey of Generation, Late Winter Rain, West Fourth Street, The Plateau, Our Dead Friend, Persephone to Demeter, Demeter to Persephone, Gaia Regards Her Children, Lord Krishna to the Summer Handyman, Born in the USA, Laundry, Dear God, At the Revelation Restaurant (2010), The Bird, Isla Mujeres, Love I, Love II(Summertime), Love III, Love IV, Ars Poetica: Seven Poems, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog (2014), The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog, Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains, The Drink Triptych, Song, The Wind That Blows Through Me, Soften and Melt, April, In Every Life, Anger I: Gray Cement, The Fear Triptych, They Speak of Race, Ridiculous, Awakening, I Want to Live, The Sorrow Triptych, Anger II: The Rape, In War Time, Paw on Your Lap, Brightness Falls from the Air, Waiting for the Light (2017), August Morning, Upper Broadway, The Light, How Fortunate the Boy, Mannahatta, The First Snowfall, The Glory of Cities, Bangladesh: The Driver, Cinco de Mayo, Biking to the George Washington Bridge, Ghazal: The Minimum Wage, 2014, A Walker in the City II, Waiting for the Light, Ghazal: America, Afghanistan: The Raped Girl, Q&A: Insurance, Making a Meal of Them, Dare I Call You Cousin, Temblor, The Liberal Arts, To Charlie, on His Poetry, Underground, Ghazal: America the Beautiful, Q&A: Reality, Approaching Eighty: New Poems (2010 -- 2019), What the Butterfly Is Thinking, November Eleventh: Two Poems, Approaching Eighty, Biking Up Prospect, The Transition: Five Poems, They Are Always Asking, Thirst, Approaching Eighty: Six Poems, Reading Dan Beachy-Quick, Wonderful Investigations, Naming the Thirst Again, The Sea, My Mother Refused To Weed, Mother in the Assisted Living, Old Woman at the River, A Season of Acid Rain, Utopian, Rouffignac, The Death of the Swan, and Other Questions, The Rose Tree, The Laptop Also Is Dying, The Words When I Wrote Them, Biking Riverside Drive Again, Eleanor, 1884 -- 1962: Five Poems, January 15, 1991: The First Gulf War, After Inauguration (excerpt), Coda: Sutra

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