The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011 (Pitt Poetry)

by Alicia Ostriker (Author)

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  2012

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  A Song of Songs, which is not Solomon's but Alicia Ostriker's. A great age-old hymn to life, to flesh, to memory, is revised again on these pages, with gusto, with passion, with clarity, with eros, with grief. If there is God, it is the mourner's or the mystic's God; if there is faith, it is the faith in our future. This is gorgeous poetry, as Jewish as it is universal. - Ilya Kaminsky