Waiting for the Light

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6452-0
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 150 g

Reihe: Pitt Poetry Series

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.

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Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of America’s premier poets and critics. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog;  The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011; 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 Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement, 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.