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The Mother/Child Papers: With a new preface by the author (Pitt Poetry Series)
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
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Description for The Mother/Child Papers: With a new preface by the author (Pitt Poetry Series)
Paperback. Series: Pitt Poetry Series. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 142.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Pitt Poetry Series
Condition
New
Weight
142g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Pittsburgh PA, United States
ISBN
9780822960331
SKU
V9780822960331
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About Alicia Suskin Ostriker
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER is the author of eleven previous poetry collections, including: No Heaven; the volcano sequence; and The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Ostriker has also written ... Read more
Reviews for The Mother/Child Papers: With a new preface by the author (Pitt Poetry Series)
Past praise for The Mother/Child Papers It is startling to read the early pages of this book: where, before this, was the literature of squalid bliss and righteous woe of taking care of an infant? It is alive in Ostriker . . . one of the most intelligent and lyrical of American poets.
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