The Window, at the Moment of Flame
"The Window, at the Moment of Flame" from No Heaven, by Alicia Suskin Ostriker, © 2005. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Poet Alicia Ostriker b. 1937
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects War & Conflict, Class, Social Commentaries
Biography
Poet, critic, and activist Alicia Ostriker was born in 1937 in New York City. She earned degrees from Brandeis and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Ostriker has published numerous volumes of poetry, including The Book of Seventy (2009), which received the Jewish National Book Award. Other books of poetry include No Heaven (2005); The Volcano Sequence (2002); Little Space (1998), . . .
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SUBJECT War & Conflict, Class, Social Commentaries
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
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