The Book of Seventy
The Book of Seventy
ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER
Series: Pitt Poetry Series
Copyright Date: 2009
Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n
Pages: 88
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qh88n
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The Book of Seventy
Book Description:

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 "golden years." 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 engagement with the self and the world, Ostriker offers us a voice and a perspective that explore the territory of seventy and beyond.

eISBN: 978-0-8229-9095-6
Subjects: Language & Literature
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. [i]-[vii])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.1
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. [viii]-[xii])
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.2
  3. I
    • APPROACHING SEVENTY
      APPROACHING SEVENTY (pp. 3-9)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.3
    • STREAM-ENTERING
      STREAM-ENTERING (pp. 10-10)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.4
    • INSOMNIA
      INSOMNIA (pp. 11-11)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.5
    • LYMPHOMA
      LYMPHOMA (pp. 12-12)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.6
    • THE SURGEON
      THE SURGEON (pp. 13-13)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.7
    • IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH
      IN SICKNESS AND HEALTH (pp. 14-14)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.8
    • NEUROLOGIST
      NEUROLOGIST (pp. 15-15)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.9
    • FAMILY: ATTEMPTED SPEECH
      FAMILY: ATTEMPTED SPEECH (pp. 16-16)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.10
    • WEST FOURTH STREET
      WEST FOURTH STREET (pp. 17-17)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.11
    • LATE WINTER RAIN
      LATE WINTER RAIN (pp. 18-18)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.12
  4. II
    • DESIRE AND JOY
      DESIRE AND JOY (pp. 21-21)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.13
    • THE MARRIED MAN
      THE MARRIED MAN (pp. 22-22)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.14
    • THE PLATEAU
      THE PLATEAU (pp. 23-23)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.15
    • OUR DEAD FRIEND
      OUR DEAD FRIEND (pp. 24-25)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.16
    • SONNETINA: THE STORM
      SONNETINA: THE STORM (pp. 26-26)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.17
    • HEAVEN
      HEAVEN (pp. 27-27)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.18
    • HONEY OF GENERATION
      HONEY OF GENERATION (pp. 28-28)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.19
  5. III
    • THE BLESSING OF THE OLD WOMAN, THE TULIP, AND THE DOG
      THE BLESSING OF THE OLD WOMAN, THE TULIP, AND THE DOG (pp. 31-31)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.20
    • APOLLO TO MARSYAS
      APOLLO TO MARSYAS (pp. 32-32)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.21
    • PERSEPHONE TO DEMETER
      PERSEPHONE TO DEMETER (pp. 33-33)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.22
    • KALI IN THE SACKLER WING
      KALI IN THE SACKLER WING (pp. 34-34)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.23
    • LAÏS TO APHRODITE
      LAÏS TO APHRODITE (pp. 35-35)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.24
    • ARTEMIS TO APHRODITE
      ARTEMIS TO APHRODITE (pp. 36-36)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.25
    • DEMETER TO PERSEPHONE
      DEMETER TO PERSEPHONE (pp. 37-37)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.26
    • LORD KRISHNA TO THE SUMMER HANDYMAN
      LORD KRISHNA TO THE SUMMER HANDYMAN (pp. 38-38)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.27
    • GAIA REGARDS HER CHILDREN
      GAIA REGARDS HER CHILDREN (pp. 39-39)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.28
    • PRAYER IN AUTUMN
      PRAYER IN AUTUMN (pp. 40-42)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.29
  6. IV
    • DRONE
      DRONE (pp. 45-46)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.30
    • BORN IN THE USA
      BORN IN THE USA (pp. 47-47)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.31
    • LISTENING TO PUBLIC RADIO
      LISTENING TO PUBLIC RADIO (pp. 48-49)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.32
    • LAUNDRY
      LAUNDRY (pp. 50-50)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.33

      Just finished folding laundry. There’s the news. A slender prisoner, ankles shackled, nude back and legs striped by a brown substance you might take for blood but which probably is feces, hair long, arms extended like a dancer’s, walks toward a soldier with rolled-up pants and a gun, posed legs akimbo tough boots in the tiled corridor. I cannot say from the image if the soldier is smiling, too few pixels to tell. Barely do the prisoner’s elegant feet touch the floor. In another nude photograph a prisoner with shorter hair cowers against a wall while two dogs whose leashes...

    • THE SNOWFALL
      THE SNOWFALL (pp. 51-52)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.34
    • TWO POEMS
      TWO POEMS (pp. 53-53)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.35
    • A THEME FOR CHARLES IVES
      A THEME FOR CHARLES IVES (pp. 54-54)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.36
    • DEAR GOD
      DEAR GOD (pp. 55-55)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.37
    • ALMANAC
      ALMANAC (pp. 56-67)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.38
    • ARS POETICA: THREE POEMS
      ARS POETICA: THREE POEMS (pp. 68-69)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.39
    • ZENO
      ZENO (pp. 70-72)
      https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.40
  7. NOTES
    NOTES (pp. 73-74)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.41
  8. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (pp. 75-75)
    https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt9qh88n.42