Research Catalog

Title

Waiting for the light / Alicia Suskin Ostriker.

Author

Ostriker, Alicia

Publication

• Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]
• ©2017

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xii, 83 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora, asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle.""--Amazon.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

Pitt poetry series.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• American poetry > 21st century
• American poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 81-82).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

August morning, upper broadway -- Light -- How fortunate the boy -- Q&A: red red rose -- Manahatta -- First snowfall -- Glory of cities -- Bangladesh: the driver -- Guyana: so nice -- Times square -- Dry hours: a golden shovel exercise -- City crocuses -- Cinco de Mayo Biking to the George Washington bridge -- Ghazal: the minimum wage -- Dark matter and dark energy -- Ghazal: o clear night -- Four men around a card table, Columbus & 97th -- Walker in the city -- Acrostic: all you need is love -- Waiting for the light -- For once, then, something -- Ghazal: America -- Afghanistan: the raped girl -- White morning -- Ghazal: not even there -- Q & A insurance -- Making a meal of them -- World according to Capa -- Are you my cousin -- Battlefield: a lyric -- Children's blood -- Temblor -- Alphabetical flash -- Liberal arts -- Common crow fibonacci -- Redeemed world -- To Charlie, on his poetry -- China in the twenty-first century -- Underground -- Ghazal: America the beautiful -- Q & A reality.

ISBN

• 082296452X
• 9780822964520

OCLC

958781637

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library