The little space : poems selected and new, 1968-1998

The little space : poems selected and new, 1968-1998 /

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, marri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ostriker, Alicia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, ©1998.
Series:Pitt poetry series.
Subjects:
Poetry.
poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
POETRY > American > General.
Poetry
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Table of Contents:
  • Early poems (1968-1974)
  • The anniversary
  • Excerpts from Once more out of darkness
  • Wrinkly lady dancer
  • A dream of springtime (1979)
  • Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway
  • Sonnet. To tell the truth
  • Annie, Aphrodite, and the elevator
  • Portraite de l'artiste
  • Portrait of a man
  • The fool stands up to teach King Lear again
  • The mother/child papers (1980)
  • Cambodia
  • Excerpts from "Mother/child"
  • Mother/child: coda
  • Excerpt from "Propaganda poem: maybe for some young mamas"
  • The leaf pile
  • The change
  • In the dust
  • His speed and strength
  • A woman under the surface (1982)
  • The waiting room
  • After the shipwreck
  • The crazy lady speaking
  • The exchange
  • The history of America
  • Dream: the disclosure
  • Homecoming
  • The impulse of singing
  • Excerpt from "Message from the sleeper at hell's mouth"
  • The runner
  • A minor Van Gogh (he speaks)
  • Waterlilies and Japanese bridge
  • The singing school
  • The imaginary lover (1986)
  • Cows
  • Horses
  • Staring at the Pacific, and swimming in it
  • Three men walking, three brown silhouettes
  • Mother in airport parking lot
  • The marriage nocturne
  • Surviving
  • Meeting the dead
  • Listen
  • A question of time
  • Years
  • I brood about some concepts, for example
  • Taking the shuttle with Franz
  • Everywoman her own theology
  • Poem beginning with a line by Fitzgerald/Hemingway
  • The war of men and women
  • A clearing by a stream
  • Letting the doves out
  • Green age (1989)
  • Fifty
  • A young woman, a tree
  • Helium
  • George in hospital
  • Excerpts from "A birthday suite"
  • Stream
  • The pure products of America
  • Windshield
  • The bride
  • The death Ghazals
  • A meditation in seven days
  • Excerpts from "Homage to Rumi"
  • To love is
  • Move
  • The crack in everything (1996)
  • The dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz
  • Boil
  • Marie at tea
  • Migrant
  • Globule
  • Nude descending
  • The studio (Homage to Alice Neel)
  • Appearance and reality
  • The boys, the broomhandle, the retarded girl
  • The eighth and thirteenth
  • Saturday night
  • The book of life
  • Middle-aged woman at a pond
  • The nature of beauty
  • The class
  • Locker room conversation
  • Jonah's gourd vine
  • Still life: a glassful of Zinnias on my daughter's kitchen table
  • Excerpts from "The mastectomy poems"
  • Uncollected and new poems (1980-1998)
  • April one
  • From the Prado rotunda: the family of Charles IV, and others
  • A Chinese fan painting
  • O'Keeffe
  • Anselm Kiefer
  • Holocaust
  • Diaspora
  • Millennial polka
  • About time.

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