Waiting for the Light by Ostriker, Alicia
Waiting for the Light by Ostriker, Alicia

Waiting for the Light

Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award, poetry category What is it like living today in...
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Author: Alicia Ostriker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Waiting for the Light by Ostriker, Alicia

Waiting for the Light

$54.37
Waiting for the Light by Ostriker, Alicia

Waiting for the Light

$54.37
Author: Alicia Ostriker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award, poetry category

What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora, asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle."

Author: Alicia Ostriker
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 02/14/2017
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780822964520


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/08/2017

About the Author
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011; and The Book of Seventy, 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.
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