The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 19681998 (Pitt Poetry Series)
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ISBN: 0822956802 / Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, October 1998
A collection of poems explores such topics as art, marriage, beauty, and the relationship between mother and child
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In 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.”
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