The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019 (Pitt Poetry Series)

ISBN: 0822946408

Author: Ostriker, Alicia Suskin

Condition: New

Alicia Suskin Ostrikers passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see, to the crack in earth . . . crack in her mind, from brilliant evocations of art and music to mother-daughter wrestlings, Ostrikers poetry rings with insistence on beauty and truth. Drawing from six of her previous books, and highlighting a sequence of bold new poems exploring the challenges and absurdities of aging, The Volcano and After is a masterpiece for our time.OLD WOMAN AT THE RIVEROn the bank of the riverI slide inside my sleeping bagsleep is good if I am notkept awake by coughingthe sound of the water soothestime passes and does not passwhen I am better I will sitand meditate for a whilethere may be birds to listen tothen I will step down the bankand put my naked foot in the waterwhich will shock at first,being so cold, so swift.