The Volcano Sequence
Published on 14. February 2002
137 pages
978-0-8229-7940-1 (ISBN)
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Bold, erotic, spiritual collection of poetry from a well-respected poet and critic, whose previous two books were both National Book Award finalists.
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker
The Volcano Sequence
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02/2002
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011; and The Book of Seventy, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors. Ostriker teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Content
- Intro
- contents
- I. december 1998-january 1999: ruthless radiance
- 1. volcano
- 2. the unmasking
- 3. mother
- 4. descent
- 5. psalm
- II. february 1999: the red thread
- 1. the red thread
- 2. mother
- 3. dialogue
- 4. the red thread again
- 5. riddles
- III. february-march 1999: deaths, transfigurations
- 1. fire
- 2. blood
- 3. earth: the shekhinah as amnesiac
- 4. time
- IV. march-april 1999: covenant
- 1. preparing for passover
- 2. during the bombing of kosovo
- 3. question and answer
- 4. the wheel
- V. may-june 1999: the mother
- 1. eyesight
- 2. our mothers: a correspondence
- VI. june 1999: illusion
- 1. cinema
- 2. cretan interlude: lasithi plateau
- VII. september 1999: turn and return
- 1. the poet in me says
- 2. days of awe
- VIII. october-november 1999: the volcano and the covenant
- 1. the volcano breathes
- 2. psalm 37: the meek shall inherit the earth
- 3. I decide to call you Being
- 4. interlude: the avenue of the americas
- 5. toward the millennium
- 6. predawn
- IX. undated poems: the space of this dialogue
- 1. psalm
- 2. seasonal
- 3. dark smile
- 4. aperture
- coda
- glossary
- acknowledgments
