The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011 - Couverture souple

Ostriker, Alicia Suskin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822961814 ISBN 13 : 9780822961819

Editeur : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

Synopsis

Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she \u2018studies’ Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet’s trajectory.\u201d —Marilyn Hacker

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822961814
• ISBN 13: 9780822961819
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
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