The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Book Overview

Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study). Here she \u2018studies' Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet's trajectory.\u201d --Marilyn Hacker

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822961814
• ISBN13: 9780822961819
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"