The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems 2002-2019

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Alicia Suskin Ostriker's passionate voice has long been acknowledged as a vital force in American poetry. From urgent spiritual quest to biting political satire, from elegy to comedy, from celebration of the city street and the world "as a paradise might be / if we had eyes to see," to the "crack in earth . . . crack in her mind," from brilliant evocations of art and music to mother-daughter wrestlings, Ostriker's poetry rings with insistence on beauty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822946408
• ISBN13: 9780822946403
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"