Everywoman Her Own Theology: An Online Companion

Essays on Alicia Ostriker

Following Scalar’s call for the unique temporality of a mindful reading practice in the otherwise restless online space, we are publishing one essay at a time. When taken as a whole, essays on this site gradually address Ostriker’s intersectionality, discussing her poetry on motherhood in the Vietnam Era, her feminist criticism and leadership in the University, her complicated relationship to Jewish heritage, and many other subjects formative to her poetic sensibility. Enjoy!

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  1. About Alicia Suskin Ostriker Setsuko Yokoyama

Contents of this path:

  1. "Alicia Ostriker: The Thief, The Volcano, and a Fistful of God" by Janlori Goldman
  2. "Alicia Ostriker and Conjunto Music" by Wendy Barker
  3. "'from our insane sad fecund obscure mothers': (En)gendering the Sacred in Alicia Ostriker’s the volcano sequence" by Jill M. Neziri
  4. "'Rejoice, we have triumphed': Ostriker’s Poetics of Motion" by Wendy Galgan
  5. “The Crack in Everything: Metaphor and Love in the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker” by Terry Lucas
  6. "On Writing Like a Jewish Woman: Alicia Ostriker" by Fleda Brown
  7. “Wrestling with the Angel”: Marina Camboni interviews Alicia Ostriker
  8. "The Consequences of Language Theft: Stealing the Language Twenty Years Later" by Marianne DeKoven
  9. "Voices of Horror, Voices of Hope: Experiencing the Poetry of Alicia Ostriker" by Katherine Hastings
  10. "Exploring the Depths of Relationships in Alicia Ostriker’s Poetry" by Janet Ruth Heller
  11. "Motherhood/Morality/Momentum: Alicia Ostriker and H.D." by Donna Krolik Hollenberg
  12. "On For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book" by Marilyn Krysl
  13. "Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America by Alicia Suskin Ostriker" by Wendy Martin
  14. Alicia Ostriker (1937- ) Biography by Maeera Y. Shreiber
  15. "Divining Alicia from Nakedness to The Old Woman, The Tulip, and the Dog" by Peter Pitzele
  16. "Poetry, Midrash, and Feminism" by Steven P. Schneider
  17. "The Storyteller: For Alicia Ostriker" by Sara Warner

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