The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998

In this selection of poems from thirty years of a distinguished writing career, we see the growth of a poet's mind, heart, and spirit as Ostriker struggles to love \u201cthis wounded / World that we cannot heal, that is our bride.\u201d Whether she probes the meaning of childhood, family, marriage, and motherhood, or art, history, politics, and God; whether she is celebrating sexuality or confronting mortality, the poet includes \u201cwhatever I can grasp of human experience within my art--the good and beautiful, the evil and chaotic. I tell my students that they must write what they are afraid to write; and I attempt to do so myself.\u201d

Author: Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 10/15/1998
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.99w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780822956808
Award: National Book Awards - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/02/1998 pg. 74
Library Journal 12/01/1998

About the Author
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.