21. Poetry Center - Ostriker, Alicia - 03/17/83 Reader ostriker, alicia. Accession Number 517. Date 03/17/83. Length32 minutes. Tape Quality good. Collection Poetry Center. Ethnicity white. http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry/newcatalog/971.htm

Reader: Ostriker, Alicia Accession Number - 517 Date: Length: 32 minutes Tape Quality: good Collection: Poetry Center Ethnicity: white Language: English Use Policy: available Content: "My Lecture to the Writing Students," "Female Writing," "The Mother Daughter Papers," "Propaganda," "The Change," "The Crazy Lady," "The Exchange," "The Demonstration," "Water Lillies and Japanese Bridge," "Anecdote With Flowers, 1919," "Homage to Dante," and "Taking the Shuttle with Franz." Comments or Questions Search Catalog

22. Alicia Suskin Ostriker: Biography Biography. alicia ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twicenominated for a National Book Award, she is author of nine http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ostriker/biography_default.htm

Biography Alicia Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is author of nine volumes of poetry, most recently The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998. As a critic Ostriker is the author of two pathbreaking volumes on women's poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. She has also published two books on the Bible, Feminist Revision and the Bible and the controversial The Nakedness of the Fathers; Biblical Visions and Revisions, a combination of prose and poetry that re-imagines the Bible from the perspective of a contemporary Jewish woman. Her most recent book is Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic. Ostriker's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Antaeus, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, MS, Tikkun, and many other journals, and have been widely anthologized. Her poetry and essays have been translated into French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic. She has lectured and given performances of her work throughout the USA, as well as in Europe, Australia, Israel, Japan and China. Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, the San Francisco State Poetry Center, the Judah Magnes Museum, the New Jersey Arts Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Princeton, NJ with her husband, and teaches English and creative writing at Rutgers University. Ostriker has taught in Toni Morrison's Atelier Program at Princeton University. She has taught midrash workshops in the USA, Israel and Australia.

23. Alicia Book Review Winthrop is pleased to announce that a limited number of copies of alicia ostriker'sThe Mother/Child Papers (Beacon Press edition) and The Imaginary Lover http://english.rutgers.edu/faculty/Alicia Book Review.htm

"Ostriker's work details the achievement of a connection between personal history and public fact as both present themselves to a very intelligent and interesting writer. Nothing in the novels of Margaret Drabble is as affecting, as convincing, as a few lines of Ostriker's." Mary Kinzie, American Poetry Review "I welcome this reissuing of The Mother/Child Papers , for they are documents as well as poems, an essential part of our history." Maxine Kumin Winthrop is pleased to announce that a limited number of copies of Alicia Ostriker's The Mother/Child Papers (Beacon Press edition) and The Imaginary Lover (original edition) are now available through the Press. Send a check for $9.95 (+ 1.45 S/H) to: Winthrop Press, PO Box 1181, Palmer Square Station, Princeton, NJ 08542. Make check payable to Winthrop Press. On The Imaginary Lover (winner of the William Carlos Williams Award): " The Imaginary Lover is filled with delicious surprisespoetry that is terse and expansive by turns, oblique, audacious, beautifully crafted. A thorough delight." Joyce Carol Oates "The recording consciousness is steady. The candor and thoughtfulness of the poems are winning. Even stronger than elegy is Ms. Ostriker's tendency to locate a sustaining force for the rest of lifea force that is both passionate and honorable."

24. Alicia Ostriker, 1996 cream To the howl I make vow after vow. From The Crack in Everything(University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996). © 1996, alicia ostriker. http://www.canceranswers.org/gallery/ostrik3.htm

HEALING Brilliant A day that is less than zero Icicles fat as legs of deer Hang in a row from the porch roof A hand without a mitten Grabs and breaks one off A brandished javelin Made of sheer Stolen light To which the palm sticks As the shock of cold Instantly shoots through the arm To the heart I need a language like that, A recognizable enemy, a clarity I do my exercises faithfully, My other arm lifts, I apply vitamin E, White udder cream To the howl I make vow after vow. From The Crack in Everything (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996)

25. Jewish Studies Faculty Moshenberg. PartTime Lecturers Eve Jochnowitz Mark Kligman LeonardLevin Lily Levy Marc Miller. alicia ostriker Professor of English. http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/faculty/aostriker.html

Full-Time Faculty Myron J. Aronoff William C. Donahue Maurice Elias Leslie E. Fishbein ... Yael Zerubavel Visiting Scholars Anat Helman Elliott Horowitz Instructors Edna Bryn-Noiman Orly Moshenberg Part-Time Lecturers Eve Jochnowitz Mark Kligman Leonard Levin Lily Levy Marc Miller Alicia Ostriker Professor of English ostriker@rci.rutgers.edu Homepage Poet and Professor of English, has published numerous scholarly works and poetry collections. Her books include Feminist Revision and the Bible (1992) and The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994). An article entitled “Aspects of Eve: Women Poets on Biblical Subjects,” appeared in Poetry Pilot: The newsletter of the Academy of American Poets . She won the Anna Rosenberg prize for a poem on Jewish life in 1995, and has poems in several anthologies of Jewish poetry.

26. Alicia Suskin Ostriker: Note On "ruthless Radiance" Note Baal Shem Tov Master of the Good Name, peasant founderof the Hasidic movement in 18th century Poland. http://www.poems.com/noteostr.htm

Note Baal Shem Tov: "Master of the Good Name," peasant founder of the Hasidic movement in century Poland. HOME Today's Poem News Archive ... About PD

27. Rutgers Focus - March 10, 2003 - Alicia Ostriker's Latest Book Overflows With Po Go back to the main Media Relations department page subconscious strugglesAlicia ostriker's latest book overflows with powerful images http://ur.rutgers.edu/focus/index.phtml?Article_ID=1032

28. Titanic Operas: Alicia Ostriker WHEN I WAS GROWING UP OUR TEACHERS TOLD US by alicia ostriker. Page1 When I was growing up our teachers told us what a shy, timid http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/ostriker.html

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP OUR TEACHERS TOLD US by Alicia Ostriker Page 1 When I was growing up our teachers told us what a shy, timid creature Emily Dickinson was, frightened of everything. This presentation colored the way many of us were taught to read her poems. They were, we thought, timid, frightened, narrow poems. But when I began reading Dickinson with an adult consciousness I realized that here was one of the most fearless poets who ever lived. What is astonishing about her mind is its courage, its ability to take risks, its absolute willingness to face and examine the most outrageously impossible possibilities, and its entire subversiveness of all convention. Among the forms of Dickinsonian outrageousness which I find most appealing is her religion. We have been told that she derives from Puritanism, as indeed she does. Yet when, during the religious fervor the Great Awakening, all her schoolmates and every other member of her family were undergoing public conversions, the adolescent Emily held out and would not surrender herself. She felt sinful and guilty, but she held out. "They are religious, except me," she later wrote Higginson when describing her family, "and address an eclipse, every morning, whom they call their 'Father.'" Her relationship with God, or the failure of a relationship, became an obsessive theme for Dickinson. Of course she writes impudently of churchgoing:

29. Titanic Operas: Alicia Ostriker WHEN I WAS GROWING UP OUR TEACHERS TOLD US by alicia ostriker Page 2 Wereaders know who that mighty merchant is, and his cool indifference http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/ostriker2.html

WHEN I WAS GROWING UP OUR TEACHERS TOLD US by Alicia Ostriker Page 2 We readers know who that mighty merchant is, and his cool indifference recurs in quite a number of Dickinson's poems. Once she declares: Of course - I prayed - And did God Care? He cared as much as on the Air A Bird - had stamped her foot - And cried "Give Me" - (JP 376) On another occasion: I never lost as much but twice, And that was in the sod. Twice have I stood a beggar Before the door of God! Angels - twice descending Reimbursed my store - Burglar! Banker - Father! I am poor once more! (JP 49) That is one of Emily Dickinson's most interesting poems because of the way it plays with the idea that, as we all know, the Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. Is the poet reverential, or is she blasphemous? Is she praying, is she accusing? She's lost something; or has it been stolen? The dominant metaphor is economic. Somebody has all the power, all the goods, and it isn't her. It isn't she. It isn't us. It isn't we. previous page next page table of contents search the archives Last updated on June 2, 2000

30. Alicia Ostriker Biography alicia ostriker's Biography appears in The Psychoanalytic Experience AnalysandsSpeakpy from client's view. http//www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ostriker/home.htm. http://www.analysands.homestead.com/AliciaOstrikerBio.html

http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ostriker/home.htm Follow Alicia to Stories of Childhood Alicia Ostriker is the author of nine volumes of poetry, includingThe Imaginary Lover, which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and The Crack in Everything (1996), which was a National Book Award finalist and won both the Paterson Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award. Her most recent book of poems, The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998, was a National Book Award finalist and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. A new volume, The Volcano Sequence, is due in spring 2002. Ostriker teaches English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University. She can be reached through her website at: Follow Alicia to Stories of Childhood Support the fight against Breast Cancer http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ostriker/home.htm

31. Vocation By Alicia Ostriker Vocation by alicia ostriker, childhood section of The Psychoanalytic Experimentanalysandsspeak. copyright2001 alicia ostriker. alicia ostriker. http://www.analysands.homestead.com/VocationByOstriker.html

Javascript is either disabled or not supported by this browser. This page may not appear properly. VOCATION She slips like a cat through traffic, a girl alone downtown for the first time, subwayfare in her purse, fear of losing it clamping her chest, wind whipping tears from her eyes, fried grease and gasoline in her nose, shoes and jewelry in shopwindows, a spike of freedom stitching her scalp though she dreads the allergy shots at the clinic she feels herself getting brave. Now it begins to snow on Central Park South and a flight of pigeons whirs up from a small pile of junk in the gutter grey, violet, green, a predatory shimmer. The marquee of the Paris Theater looks at the ecstatic child through downcast lashes, condescendingly. I see her over a distance of fifty years. How small she is in her thin coat. I offer a necklace of tears, orgasms, words. Alicia Ostriker

32. On A Good Day Alicia Ostriker On a good day alicia ostriker see the bridge that spans the flood of spacetimerolling between the one place and the other the place of great light and our http://www.canwehaveourballback.com/ostriker.htm

On a good day Alicia Ostriker see the bridge that spans the flood of spacetime rolling between the one place and the other the place of great light and our humble lives it is like a pipeline like a flying spark in wind when it is stairs going down the steps are reality experience interpretation and emotion then we write the return message blessed be you blessed be you so it goes beween god and man and the rest of the time what gnashing of teeth what slamming doors

33. Pitt-poetry The Crack in Everything ostriker, alicia Suskin Paper ISBN 08229-5593-8 · $12.95s. GreenAge ostriker, alicia Suskin Paper ISBN 0-8229-5421-4 · $12.95s. http://www.pitt.edu/~press/books_by_subject/poetry.html

Poetry Accordion Breathing and Dancing Schwartz, Ruth L. All-American Girl Becker, Robin Angel, Interrupted Shepherd, Reginald Applause Muske, Carol The Art of Drowning Collins, Billy The Axion Esti Elytis, Odysseus Black Swan Van Clief-Stefanon, Lyrae Blessing the House Daniels, Jim Blue Like the Heavens Gildner, Gary Boneshaker Beatty, Jan Brave Disguises Jacobik, Gray Captivity Derricotte, Toi Cathedral of the North Voisine, Connie The Cave Hanzlicek, C. G. Children of Paradise Rosenberg, Liz City of a Hundred Fires Blanco, Richard City of Salt Orr, Gregory The Company of Heaven Skinner, Jeffrey The Crack in Everything Ostriker, Alicia Suskin A Defense of Poetry Gudding, Gabriel The Domestic Life Hawkins, Hunt Elegy Levis, Larry Emplumada Cervantes, Lorna Dee The Essential Etheridge Knight Knight, Etheridge Eve's Striptease Kasdorf, Julia

34. Ostriker, The Volcano Sequence They pour out from under alicia ostriker's scholarship on the Old Testament, buttheir inspiration is older than that, and newer than thatas if Ariadne had http://www.pitt.edu/~press/2002/ostrikertvs.html

6 x 9 Home Order Form "psalm" I am not lyric any more I will not play the harp for your pleasure I will not make a joyful noise to you, neither will I lament for I know you drink lamentation, too, like wine so I dully repeat you hurt me I hate you I pull my eyes away from the hills I will not kill for you I will never love you again unless you ask me the volcano sequence Alicia Suskin Ostriker "In her tenth collection, Ostriker's need to understand a woman's relationship with "ruach" (wind, breath, spirit of God) is a crucial poetic-and human-act, making this is an innovative "book of life" for men and women alike. Recommended for all poetry collections." -Library Journal "A brave and powerful interrogation of desire for love, for justice, for God, in which the rigor of her intelligence is beautifully matched by the passion of her questing."-Dennis Loy Johnson, MobyLives.com "Audiences will certainly admire her brave declarations and identify with her very real tones and concerns."

35. Poetry Magazine, Featured Poet: Alicia Suskin Ostriker, September 2002 Poetry by alicia Suskin ostriker, the shekhinah as mute, all poetry is you say, mother you coldly remark, our mothers a correspondence , bright sunshine http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2002/Sept2002/ostriker.htm

Alicia Suskin Ostriker USA ostriker@amenti.rutgers.edu Alicia Ostriker is the author of nine volumes of poetry, including The Imaginary Lover , which won the 1986 William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and The Crack in Everything (1996), which was a National Book Award finalist and won both the Paterson Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award. The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998, was a National Book Award finalist and a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets. A new volume, The Volcano Sequence, is due in February 2002. Ostriker's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Antaeus, The Nation, POETRY, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, MS, Tikkun, and many other journals, and have been widely anthologized. Her poetry and essays have been translated into French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Arabic. Ostrikers critical works include Writing Like a Woman (1982), Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Womens Poetry in America (1986), and Feminist Revision and the Bible (1992). The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994) is a combination of poetry and prose meditations on the bible from a contemporary Jewish womans point of view. Most recently, she has published Dancing at the Devils Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic (2000). Ostriker has received awards from the National Endowment

36. Poetry Magazine, Alicia Ostriker,  January 2002 Poetry by alicia ostriker, a group of poems from her forthcoming book THE VOLCANOSEQUENCE (due from University of Pittsburgh Press in February), On a good day http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2002/January2002/ostriker.htm

Alicia Ostriker USA ostriker@rci.rutgers.edu Fire "the Lord your God is a consuming fire" the stories of the gods outshine the moon your story is darkness outshining the sun we hide our eyes because of your fire at the moment of the mountain let not God speak to us lest we die no wonder history gives us cities like widows sitting in their menstrual blood no wonder book of revelation surges up four horsemen orgy of vengeance after nonviolent gospels no wonder swarms Christian soldiers burning libraries heretics no wonder chapel in Cuzco San Antonio striding upon the prone body of an Indian no wonder imams cut hands off sinners no wonder the Jewish lunatic murders worshipers in a place of reconciliation everybody trying to look goes blind One of these days oh one of these days will be a festival and a judgment and our enemies will be thrown into the pit while we rejoice and sing hymns Some people actually think this way On a good day there is a bridge that spans the flood of spacetime pouring between your imperial palace and our poor tenements your domain, "ha-makom", of purest

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38. Ploughshares, The Literary Journal Authors Articles alicia ostriker. alicia ostriker. Ploughshares articles by orabout this author alicia ostriker, Another Imaginary Voyage, Poetry, Spring 1996. http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authorDetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=1158

39. Alicia Ostriker: "Surface/Draft 6" V P R VALPARAISO POETRY REVIEW Contemporary Poetry and Poetics ~alicia ostriker~.SURFACE/DRAFT 6. I. I might work on. making music of that. © by alicia ostriker. http://www.valpo.edu/english/vpr/ostrikersurface.html

V P R V ALPARAISO P OETRY R EVIEW Contemporary Poetry and Poetics ~A LICIA O STRIKER S URFACE /D RAFT I All the photographs are lies, in that in them she looks normal, like other people, not crazy. Her eyes are compelling as doe's eyes, and she did not know this, and the worst of it is she looks alive. I keep telling her to come back sometime! Come back! I wonder where she is gone, maybe to find my father? Watching death, as light abandons the eyes, seeing the cavern of the dropped mouth, the shadowed throat, hearing the wheeze and gurgle, we are like Moses, allowed to behold God's backside from a cleft in the rock, the face and hands soft, horrible, fine, the mystery diminished not one grain. Then the jaw tightened and after a while it fell almost clacking, and the nurse nodded, and there was her baffled silence after the noisiness of us all singing to her, the touching of skin when I stroked her forehead goodbye, and patted through the nightgown her belly and breasts. O I loved her and this was her response. II My mother is dead two weeks We were holding her hands and singing to her when she let go. Very little pain, lucid

40. Alicia Ostriker - Poetry-in-the-Round - Seton Hall Univeristy alicia ostriker. Wednesday, March 1, 745 pm. . feel a deep kinship tothe work of alicia ostriker, and a debt as well. Eleanor Wilner. http://artsci.shu.edu/poetry/previous/aliciaostriker.html

alicia ostriker Wednesday, March 1, 7:45 pm "Now that Ginsberg is gone, Ostriker is contemporary poetry's most Blakean figure." Women's Review of Books "All of us who are women poets, idol breakers, and revisionists. . . feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well." Eleanor Wilner "Among the finest American poets" World Literature Today Author of nine books of poetry, including last year's The Little Space , Alicia Ostriker has become, in Joyce Carol Oates' words, "one of those brilliantly provocative and imaginatively gifted contemporaries whose iconoclastic expression is essential to our understanding of our American selves." Two of her books of poems have been finalists for the National Book Award; The Crack in Everything won the Paterson Poetry Prize, and The Imaginary Lover won the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her critical works include the ground-breaking

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