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- The Book of Seventy
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the “golden years.” as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late years, curious about what happens in the soul. Out of that curiosity is a new kind of poetry born, an elderstile that has passion and irony, wisdom, folly, clarity and tenderness. In her keen engagement with the self and the world, Ostriker offers us a voice and a perspective that explore the territory of seventy and beyond.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
- pp. i-vii
- I
- Approaching Seventy
- pp. 3-9
- Stream-Entering
- p. 10
- The Surgeon
- p. 13
- Neurologist
- p. 15
- West Fourth Street
- p. 17
- Late Winter Rain
- p. 18
- II
- Desire and Joy
- p. 21
- The Married Man
- p. 22
- The Plateau
- p. 23
- Our Dead Friend
- pp. 24-25
- Sonnetina: The Storm
- p. 26
- Honey of Generation
- p. 28
- III
- Apollo to Marsyas
- p. 32
- Laïs to Aphrodite
- p. 35
- Artemis to Aphrodite
- p. 36
- Prayer in Autumn
- pp. 40-42
- IV
- Born in the USA
- p. 47
- Listening to Public Radio
- pp. 48-49
- The Snowfall
- pp. 51-52
- Ars Poetica: three poems
- pp. 68-69
- Acknowledgments
- p. 75
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990956
Related ISBN(s)
9780822960515
MARC Record
OCLC
867791069
Pages
87
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No