The Little Space

Poems Selected and New, 1968–1998

Alicia Suskin Ostriker

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780822979388
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

1998 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry1999 Finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry PrizeIn this selection of poems from thirty years of a distinguished writing career, we see the growth of a poet's mind, heart, and spirit as Ostriker struggles to love "this wounded / World that we cannot heal, that is our bride."Whether she probes the meaning of childhood, family, marriage, and motherhood, or art, history, politics, and God; whether she is celebrating sexuality or confronting mortality, the poet includes "whatever I can grasp of human experience within my art—the good and beautiful, the evil and chaotic. I tell my students that they must write what they are afraid to write; and I attempt to do so myself."

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Early Poems (1968–1974)
• A Dream of Springtime (1979)
• The Mother/Child Papers (1980)
• A Woman Under the Surface (1982)
• The Imaginary Lover (1986)
• Green Age (1989)
• The Crack in Everything (1996)
• Uncollected and New Poems (1980–1998)
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author