The Holy & Broken Bliss by Ostriker, Alicia
The Holy & Broken Bliss by Ostriker, Alicia

The Holy & Broken Bliss

How can we find meaning in the face of aging, illness, and the inevitability of death? How...
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Author: Alicia Ostriker
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The Holy & Broken Bliss by Ostriker, Alicia

The Holy & Broken Bliss

$50.31
The Holy & Broken Bliss by Ostriker, Alicia

The Holy & Broken Bliss

$50.31
Author: Alicia Ostriker
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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How can we find meaning in the face of aging, illness, and the inevitability of death? How can we respond to the double plague of a fierce pandemic and a divided society? The keenly observant and urgent poems of The Holy & Broken Bliss are grounded in daily existence, human tenderness, the rituals of a long marriage, and the poet's ongoing spiritual quest. In the middle of a world that seems to be breaking down into suffering and anger, the spare and direct lines of these poems, surrounded by silence, offer a kind of healing. The poems ask us to consider what living looks like inside of ongoing misery (misery we often are responsible for making and accepting). They call us to ask ourselves how we locate joy and even laughter when despair is ever-present. The Holy & Broken Bliss contemplates free will, autonomy, self-control, the commodification of ourselves, and our desires for vengeance, satiation, rage, and acknowledgment of our collective sicknesses, along with the sacred possibilities of love, communication with nature, the power of art, and the "need to praise."



Author: Alicia Ostriker
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 10/08/2024
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781949944679

About the Author
Alicia Ostriker has published sixteen volumes of poetry, including The Volcano and After; Waiting for the Light; The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems 1979-2011; No Heaven; The Volcano Sequence; and The Imaginary Lover, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award. She was twice a National Book Award Finalist, for The Little Space (1998) and The Crack in Everything (1996), and twice a National Jewish Book Award winner. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Paris Review, Yale Review, Ontario Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Anthology, and many other journals and anthologies, and has been translated into numerous languages including Hebrew and Arabic. Ostriker's critical work includes the now-classic Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women's Poetry in America, and other books on American poetry and on the Bible.
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