Mother/Child Papers, The

With a new preface by the author

AvAlicia Suskin Ostriker

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-01-30
Mått:150 x 205 x 6 mm
Vikt:141 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pitt Poetry Series
Antal sidor:64
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822960331

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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, wi

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Brava/bravo to University of Pittsburgh Press for reissuing Ostriker's seminal work in the gradual accretion of powerful poetry by women about their bodies, their inner lives, their societal positions. Her feminist affirmation of motherhood comes against the backdrop of protests against the Vietnam War, the murders at Kent State, and the New York Times's revelation of The Pentagon Papers. Nowhere in late twentieth-century belles lettres has the personal inserted itself so meaningfully into the political.