Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin OstrikerAlicia Ostriker’s artistic and intellectual productions as a poet, critic, and essayist over the past 50 years are protean and have been profoundly influential to generations of readers, writers, and critics. In all her writings, both the feminist and the human engage fiercely with the material and metaphysical world. Ostriker is a poet concerned with questions of social justice, equality, religion, and how to live in a world marked by both beauty and tragedy. Everywoman Her Own Theology: On the Poetry of Alicia Suskin Ostriker engages Ostriker’s poetry from throughout her career, including her first volume Songs, her award-winning collection The Imaginary Lover, and her more recent work in the collections No Heaven, the volcano sequence, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog, and Waiting for the Light. Like her literary criticism and essays, Ostriker’s poetry explores themes of feminism, Jewish life, family, and social justice. With insightful essays—some newly written for this collection—poets and literary critics including Toi Derricotte, Daisy Fried, Cynthia Hogue, Tony Hoagland, and Eleanor Wilner illuminate and open new pathways for critical engagement with Alicia Ostriker’s lifetime of poetic work. |
Contents
Alicia Ostriker Thumbtacking Her Theses to the Bulletin Board Martha Nell Smith | 1 |
Joan Larkin Interviews Alicia Ostriker Joan Larkin | 8 |
The Imaginary Lover Green Age and Other Points of Fusion with William Blake Jenny Factor | 23 |
Alicia Ostrikers Poetry and Criticism Diana Hume George | 40 |
Tectonic Shifts on The Crack in Everything Marilyn Hacker | 54 |
Well Burn My Bush Alicia Ostriker in Dialogue with Biblical Narrative Marion Helfer Wajngot | 60 |
Maternal Theology in the volcano sequence Jill Hammer | 71 |
the volcano sequence as Fragmentary Postmodern and Yes Feminist Text Richard Tayson | 89 |
Judy Grahn Alicia Ostriker and the Shock of Pleasure Julie R Enszer | 136 |
Mixed Dancing Eric Selinger | 150 |
The Bible as an Open Book Marilyn Krysl | 166 |
The Transformation of Grief in Elegy Before the War Wesley McNair | 170 |
Its Okay to Play and Joy Is Political Toi Derricotte | 175 |
Waiting for the Light Afaa Michael Weaver | 179 |
Awakening with Alicia Ostriker Eleanor Wilner | 182 |
A Chronological Bibliography of Her Books | 191 |
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