Synopses & Reviews
Review
“Her spirit encompasses the exuberance of a girl, the vulnerability of someone in love, and wisdom of a mother who can allow her childern to leave home.”
--Choice
Review
“Ostriker faces the tests that God and the world present and comes away with an affirmative vision; this is as unusual as it is welcome in these times, when poetry too often stops short of both.”
--Virginia Quarterly Review
Synopsis
The variety of subjects in Green Age is characteristic of Alicia Suskin Ostriker's writing: from the opening poem, "Fifty," funny, courageous, and defiant, to a set of birthday poems for a grown daughter; from emulations of the Persian mystic Rumi, to the provactive "Meditation in Seven Days," whose central assumption is that we may find in the Bible traces of a Canaanite goddess whose worship was forbidden with the advent of patriarchal monotheism.