The Book of Seventy

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Book Overview

Alicia Ostriker seizes the opportunity to take us where too few poets have been able to take us: into a domain of what our fabulists like to call the \u201cgolden years.\u201d as we live longer, we become inevitably curious about the actual texture of these late years, curious about what happens in the soul. Out of that curiosity is a new kind of poetry born, an elderstile that has passion and irony, wisdom, folly, clarity and tenderness. In her keen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822960516
• ISBN13: 9780822960515
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.5" x 9.0"