Poetry Magazine
Soften and Melt
Source: Poetry (February 2011).
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), . . .
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Relationships, Men & Women
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Poetic Terms Free Verse
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