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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.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vii
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. viii-xii
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  1. I
  1. Approaching Seventy
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  1. Stream-Entering
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  1. Insomnia
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  1. Lymphoma
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  1. The Surgeon
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  1. In Sickness and Health
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  1. Neurologist
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  1. Family: Attempted Speech
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  1. West Fourth Street
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  1. Late Winter Rain
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  1. II
  1. Desire and Joy
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  1. The Married Man
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  1. The Plateau
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  1. Our Dead Friend
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  1. Sonnetina: The Storm
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  1. Heaven
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  1. Honey of Generation
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  1. III
  1. The Blessing of the Old Woman,the Tulip, and the Dog
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  1. Apollo to Marsyas
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  1. Persephone to Demeter
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  1. Kali in the Sackler Wing
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  1. Laïs to Aphrodite
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  1. Artemis to Aphrodite
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  1. Demeter to Persephone
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  1. Lord Krishna to the Summer Handyman
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  1. Gaia Regards Her Children
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  1. Prayer in Autumn
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  1. IV
  1. Drone
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  1. Born in the USA
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  1. Listening to Public Radio
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  1. Laundry
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  1. The Snowfall
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  1. Two Poems
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  1. A Theme for Charles Ives
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  1. Dear God
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  1. Almanac
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  1. Ars Poetica: three poems
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  1. Zeno
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  1. Notes
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  1. Acknowledgments
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