A Woman Under the Surface : : Poems and Prose Poems / / Alicia Ostriker.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ostriker, Alicia,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (90 p.)

From A Woman Under the Surface:MOON AND EARTH Alicia Ostriker ? Of one substance, of oneMatter, they have cruellyBroken apart. They never will touch Each other again. The shiningLovelier and youngerTurns away, a pitiful girl. She is completely nakedAnd it hurts. The largerMotherly one, breathlessly...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• I
• The Waiting Room
• After the Shipwreck
• The Crazy Lady Speaking
• The Exchange
• Fisherman
• The Raven of Death
• Camping by the Pacific
• The Pleiades in December: Line of Sight
• The End of the Line
• Ceremony of the Bathtub
• As in a Gallery
• In Spring Rain
• Moon and Earth
• II
• To Kill the Dove
• Downstairs
• Ceremony of the Box
• The Call
• The Demonstration
• The Terrorist Trial and the Games
• This Dreamer Cometh
• The History of America
• San Juan Waterfront
• Those Who Know Do Not Speak, Those Who Speak Do Not Know
• Three Women
• Two Writers: For J. D
• The Long Horn
• Like Fruit
• III
• Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth
• The Impulse of Singing
• Homecoming
• The Runner
• Homage to Dante
• Homage to Matisse
• Anecdote with Flowers: 1919
• A Minor Van Gogh (He Speaks)
• Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge
• For the Daughters
• IV
• The Diver
• The Pure Unknown
• Like an Orphan
• The Blood
• Ceremony of Houses
• Dream: The Disclosure
• The Voices
• Dreaming of Her
• Don't Be Afraid
• The Courage
• A Woman Walking in the Suburbs
• Storm
• Anxiety about Dying
• The Singing School
• A NOTE ON "MESSAGE FROM THE SLEEPER AT HELL'S MOUTH"