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The book of seventy
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Poems that explore the territory of advancing age - its tragicomedies, its passions, its engagement with the world.
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- Creator
- Alicia Suskin Ostriker
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2009]
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- Physical Details
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- 75 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780822960515, 0822990954, 1322080321, 9780822990956, 0822960516
- OCLC
- ocn326552731, ocn867791069
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Approaching seventy -- Stream-entering -- Insomnia -- Lymphoma -- The surgeon -- In sickness and health -- Neurologist -- Family : Attempted speech -- West Fourth Street -- Late Winter rain -- Desire and joy -- The married man -- The plateau -- Our dead friend -- Sonnetina : The storm -- Heaven -- Honey of generation -- The blessing of the old woman, the tulip, and the dog -- Apollo to Marsyas -- Persephone to Demeter -- Kali in the Sackler Wing -- Laïs to Aphrodite -- Artemis to Aphrodite -- Demeter to Persephone -- Lord Krishna to the Summer handyman -- Gaia regards her children -- Prayer in Autumn -- Drone -- Born in the USA -- Listening to public radio -- Laundry -- The snowfall -- Two poems -- A theme for Charles Ives -- Dear God -- Almanac -- Ars Poetica : Three poems -- Zeno