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- The Crack In Everything
- Book
- 1996
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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This volume of poetry from Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of her most ambitious, ranging from laments and celebrations for a flawed world to meditations on art and artists, to a powerful exploration of illness and healing.
Table of Contents
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- Front Cover
- p. 1
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 2-9
- Marie at Tea
- pp. 5-6
- Alice Before Her Widowhood
- pp. 7-18
- Revolution as Desire
- pp. 8-19
- Surfer Days
- pp. 9-20
- In Our Time: A Poem to Aphrodite
- pp. 12-23
- At the Van Gogh Museum
- pp. 14-25
- Nude Descending
- pp. 15-16
- The Studio (Homage to Alice Neel)
- pp. 17-28
- Appearance and Reality
- pp. 18-19
- The Orange Cat
- pp. 22-33
- The Death of the Poet, Hartford 1955
- pp. 23-34
- Deaf Cities
- pp. 24-25
- Anecdotes Without Flowers: 1919
- pp. 26-37
- The Russian Army Goes Into Baku
- pp. 27-28
- The Eighth and Thirteenth
- pp. 29-31
- Saturday Night
- pp. 33-34
- The Book of Life
- pp. 39-46
- Neoplatonic Riff
- pp. 49-60
- After Illness
- pp. 50-53
- Middle-Aged Woman at a Pond
- pp. 54-65
- The Figure of Metaphor
- pp. 55-56
- The Nature of Beauty
- pp. 58-59
- Frowning at Emily
- pp. 62-73
- The Vocabulary of Joy
- pp. 63-74
- Locker Room Conversation
- pp. 64-75
- Jonah’s Gourd Vine
- pp. 65-76
- Berkeley: Youth and Age
- pp. 66-77
- After the Reunion
- pp. 67-68
- Translation
- pp. 69-80
- The Glassblower’s Breath
- pp. 70-71
- Taylor Lake
- pp. 77-79
- The Mastectomy Poems
- pp. 85-99
- Acknowledgment
- pp. 100-
- Back Cover
- p. 114
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822979395
Related ISBN(s)
9780822955931
MARC Record
OCLC
603785396
Pages
112
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
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