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by Alicia Ostriker


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Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award, poetry category What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora, asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle."

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  • Title Waiting for the Light
  • Author Alicia Ostriker
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Date 2017-02
  • ISBN 9780822964520 / 082296452X
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.9 x 0.3 in (19.81 x 14.99 x 0.76 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Poetry, American poetry
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 05/08/2017, Page 0

About the author

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011; and The Book of Seventy, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors. Ostriker teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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