Alicia Ostriker
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Alicia Ostriker: Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. She was called "America's most fiercely honest poet," by Progressive.
- also known as Alicia Suskin Ostriker
- born on (78 years ago) in Brooklyn
- nationality: United States of America
- profession: Poet, writer, essayist
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Encyclopedia of Motherhood (2010)
Encyclopedia of Motherhoodby Andrea O'Reilly
“Alicia Ostriker Home Page.” http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~ ostriker/home.htm (accessed June 2009). Rosie Rosenzweig Brandeis University ...
Sports in America from Colonial Times to the Twenty-First Century: An Encyclopedia (2015)
An Encyclopedia by Steven A. Riess
Unsurprisingly, sports poems by women (including Tess Gallagher, Patricia Goedicke, Alicia Ostriker, and Marge Piercy) are particularly attuned to physicality, to female bodies engaged in actions historically defined as male.
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2014)
The Twentieth Century by Eric L. Haralson
Alicia Ostriker definesits difference from TheHard Hoursas“an attempt to transcend despair without resorting to selfdelusion” (Lea, ...
Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2013)
Autobiographical and Biographical Forms by Margaretta Jolly
In poetry, too, particularly in North America, many have followed the lead of Loy, Plath, and Sexton, and have written autobiographically on motherhood; see, for example, Toi Derricote, Erica Jong, Alicia Ostriker, Sharon Olds, and Minnie ...
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