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 “this wounded / World that we cannot heal, that is our bride.” 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 “whatever 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.”

• Author
• Alicia Suskin Ostriker

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 240

• Publisher
• University of Pittsburgh Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780822956808

• Genres
• poetry

• Release date
• 1998