ARGONAUT BOOKS

Reviews These capacious poems are smart, passionate, witty, acutely observant, heart-stabbing. They contain multitudes, embracing both 'hot beauty' and 'thick and magnificent rage,' 'the impulse to destroy' and 'the body...keen for pleasure again,' along with a bounty of other precise nuances of thought and perception. Alicia Ostriker binds together the contradictions of our contemporary lives in an insistent music that does what all real poetry does-'it becomes true.'Ellen BassAlicia Ostriker continues to grapple with and celebrate the life of a woman-wife, mother, lover, ...Read More