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

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

© 2012 University of Pittsburgh Press (E-bog): 9780822978350

Release date

E-bog: 29. januar 2012