The Volcano Sequence

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University of Pittsburgh Press, Feb 14, 2002 - Poetry - 123 pages
A bold, erotic,and spiritual collection of poetry from well-respected poet and critic Alicia Suskin Ostriker, whose previous two books were both National Book Award finalists.

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the unmasking
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II february 1999
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dialogue
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The Volcano Sequence
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
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Abraham Joshua Heschel ancestress Anne Carson Atlantis awake beauty beloved blood body breasts breath Bruriah coughs covenant curl dancing dark smile days of awe dead dream dust-free air earth ein sof enemies eyes face fear flesh flowing graves hair hands heaven holy holy holy holy holy hurt husband imagine interlude Jews Jonah Jorie Graham kiss Lasithi laugh leave listen live look maples memory mikvah mist mother my queen mouth moved ruach Muriel Rukeyser night olive pain Paul Celan poem Poetry pray prayer psalm Rabbi red thread remember repentance rosh hashanah shame shekhinah skin smell snakes someone song soul speak spills spirit was moving splashes stone story swallowed teeth tell throbbing Toi Derricotte tongue transparency trees turn vapor volcano wait water dividing waves wind woman womb women words wound Yehuda Amichai yom kippur

About the author (2002)

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is one of America’s premier visionary poets and critics. She is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including The Book of Seventy; The Mother/Child Papers; No Heaven; the volcano sequence; and The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998, as well as several books on the Bible. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Ostriker is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of Drew University.

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TitleThe Volcano Sequence
Pitt Poetry Series
AuthorAlicia Ostriker
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press, 2002
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMay 16, 2008
ISBN0822957841, 9780822957843
Length123 pages
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