In this Book
- The Mother/Child Papers: With a new preface by the author
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker’s personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into.
Table of Contents
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- I: Cambodia
- pp. 1-6
- II: mother/child
- pp. 7-30
- III: the spaces
- Letter to M
- p. 33
- The Spaces
- pp. 41-42
- The Leaf Pile
- pp. 50-51
- The Change
- pp. 53-54
- One, to Fly
- p. 55
- IN THE DUST
- pp. 56-57
- Iv: this power
- One Marries
- pp. 61-63
- This Power
- p. 64
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822978268
Related ISBN(s)
9780822960331
MARC Record
OCLC
835768592
Pages
77
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No