This volume of essays celebrates poetry that aims to change the
world, whether through engagement with political issues,
reimagining the meanings of love, recasting our relationship with
nature; or through new relationships with our spiritual traditions.
Alicia Ostriker's opening essay, defining the difference between
poetry and propaganda, surveys the artistic accomplishments of the
women's poetry movement. Succeeding essays explore the meaning of
politics, love, and the spiritual life in the work of Walt Whitman,
Elizabeth Bishop, Sharon Olds, Maxine Kumin, Lucille Clifton, and
Allen Ginsberg.
In her work, Ostriker can be controversial, as when she attacks the
academic establishment for rejecting the erotic dimension of
poetry, or when she meditates on the significance of the black poet
Lucille Clifton to herself as a reader, or when she argues that
Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"--famous as the primary poem of the Beat
Generation--is also a profoundly Jewish poem. Yet her writing is
always lively and readable, free of academic jargon, inviting the
reader to enjoy a wide range of poetic styles and
experiences.
Ostriker's criticism, like her poetry, is both feminist and deeply
humane. These essays on American poetry will appeal to students of
poetry, scholars of American literature, and anyone who enjoys the
work of the poets discussed in the book.
Alicia Ostriker is the author of nine books of poetry, including
"The Imaginary Lover," which won the William Carlos Williams Award
and "The Crack in Everything," which was a National Book award
finalist in 1996, and which received the Paterson Prize in 1997 and
the San Fransisco State Poetry Center Award in 1998. She is
Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers University.
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