A Woman Under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Book Overview

From A Woman Under the Surface:
MOON AND EARTH

Alicia Ostriker

Of one substance, of one
Matter, they have cruelly
Broken apart. They never will touch

Each other again. The shining
Lovelier and younger
Turns away, a pitiful girl.

She is completely naked
And it hurts. The larger
Motherly one, breathlessly luminous

Emerald, and blue, and white
Traveling mists, suffers
Birth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101390X
• ISBN13: 9780691013909
• Release Date: May 1982
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"