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No Heaven (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822958758)
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xAlicia Suskin Ostriker's voice has long been acknowledged as a major force in American poetry. In No Heaven, her eleventh collection, she takes a hint from John Lennon's \u0022Imagine\u0022 to wrestle with the world as it is: \u0022no hell below us, / above us only sky.\u0022
It is a world of cities, including New York, London, Jerusalem, and Berlin, where the poet can celebrate pickup basketball, peace marches, and the energy of graffiti. It is also a world of families, generations coming and going, of love, love affairs, and friendship. Then it is a world full of art and music, of Rembrandt and Bonnard, Mozart and Brahms. Finally, it is a world haunted by violence and war. No Heaven rises to a climax with elegies for Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by an Israeli zealot, and for the poet's mother, whose death is experienced in the context of a post-9/11 impulse to destroy that seems to seduce whole nations.
Yet Ostriker's ultimate stance is to \u0022Try to praise the mutilated world, \u0022 as the poet Adam Zagajewski has counseled. At times lyric, at times satiric, Ostriker steadfastly pursuesin No Heaven her poetics of ardor, a passion for the here and now that has chastened and consoled her many devoted readers.
Author: Alicia Suskin Ostriker
ISBN-10: 0822958759
ISBN-13: 9780822958758
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2005
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.10w x 0.45d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2005 pg. 1425
Publishers Weekly 03/07/2005 pg. 65
Library Journal 03/15/2005 pg. 88
It is a world of cities, including New York, London, Jerusalem, and Berlin, where the poet can celebrate pickup basketball, peace marches, and the energy of graffiti. It is also a world of families, generations coming and going, of love, love affairs, and friendship. Then it is a world full of art and music, of Rembrandt and Bonnard, Mozart and Brahms. Finally, it is a world haunted by violence and war. No Heaven rises to a climax with elegies for Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by an Israeli zealot, and for the poet's mother, whose death is experienced in the context of a post-9/11 impulse to destroy that seems to seduce whole nations.
Yet Ostriker's ultimate stance is to \u0022Try to praise the mutilated world, \u0022 as the poet Adam Zagajewski has counseled. At times lyric, at times satiric, Ostriker steadfastly pursuesin No Heaven her poetics of ardor, a passion for the here and now that has chastened and consoled her many devoted readers.
Author: Alicia Suskin Ostriker
ISBN-10: 0822958759
ISBN-13: 9780822958758
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2005
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.10w x 0.45d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/15/2005 pg. 1425
Publishers Weekly 03/07/2005 pg. 65
Library Journal 03/15/2005 pg. 88
By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
xAlicia 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.
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