The Little Space

In this selection of poems from thirty years of a distinguished writing career, we see the growth of a poet's mind, heart, and spirit as Ostriker struggles to love "this wounded / World that we cannot heal, that is our bride". Whether she probes the meaning of childhood, family, marriage, and motherhood, or art, history politics, and God: whether she is celebrating sexuality or confronting mortality, the poet includes "whatever I can grasp of human experience within my art -- the good and beautiful, the evil and chaotic. I tell my students that they must write what they are afraid to write; and I attempt to do so myself".

The Anniversary	p. 3
Excerpts from Once More Out of Darkness	p. 4
Wrinkly Lady Dancer	p. 8
Becky and Benny in Far Rockaway	p. 11
Sonnet. To Tell the Truth	p. 12
Annie, Aphrodite, and the Elevator	p. 13
Portraite de l'Artiste	p. 15
Portrait of a Man	p. 16
The Fool Stands Up to Teach King Lear Again	p. 17
Cambodia	p. 21
Excerpts from "Mother/Child"	p. 26
Mother/Child: Coda	p. 36
Excerpt from "Propaganda Poem: Maybe for Some Young Mamas"	p. 38
The Leaf Pile	p. 39
The Change	p. 41
In the Dust	p. 43
His Speed and Strength	p. 44
The Waiting Room	p. 47
After the Shipwreck	p. 49
The Crazy Lady Speaking	p. 50
The Exchange	p. 51
The History of America	p. 52
Dream: The Disclosure	p. 53
Homecoming	p. 54
The Impulse of Singing	p. 56
Excerpt from "Message from the Sleeper at Hell's Mouth"	p. 57
The Runner	p. 59
A Minor Van Gogh (He Speaks)	p. 61
Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge	p. 62
The Singing School	p. 64
Cows	p. 67
Horses	p. 69
Staring at the Pacific, and Swimming in It	p. 71
Three Men Walking, Three Brown Silhouettes	p. 73
Mother in Airport Parking Lot	p. 75
The Marriage Nocturne	p. 77
Surviving	p. 79
Meeting the Dead	p. 86
Listen	p. 88
A Question of Time	p. 90
Years	p. 92
I Brood About Some Concepts, for Example	p. 93
Taking the Shuttle with Franz	p. 95
Everywoman Her Own Theology	p. 97
Poem Beginning with a Line by Fitzgerald/Hemingway	p. 99
The War of Men and Women	p. 103
A Clearing by a Stream	p. 111
Letting the Doves Out	p. 113
Fifty	p. 117
A Young Woman, a Tree	p. 119
Helium	p. 122
George in Hospital	p. 123
Excerpts from "A Birthday Suite"	p. 124
Stream	p. 128
The Pure Products of America	p. 130
Windshield	p. 132
The Bride	p. 133
The Death Ghazals	p. 136
A Meditation in Seven Days	p. 141
Excerpts from "Homage to Rumi"	p. 152
To Love Is	p. 157
Move	p. 159
The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz	p. 163
Boil	p. 164
Marie at Tea	p. 166
Migrant	p. 169
Globule	p. 170
Nude Descending	p. 172
The Studio (Homage to Alice Neel)	p. 174
Appearance and Reality	p. 175
The Boys, the Broomhandle, the Retarded Girl	p. 177
The Eighth and Thirteenth	p. 178
Saturday Night	p. 181
The Book of Life	p. 183
Middle-Aged Woman at a Pond	p. 191
The Nature of Beauty	p. 192
The Class	p. 194
Locker Room Conversation	p. 196
Jonah's Gourd Vine	p. 198
Still Life: A Glassful of Zinnias on My Daughter's Kitchen Table	p. 199
Excerpts from "The Mastectomy Poems"	p. 202
April One	p. 217
From the Prado Rotunda: The Family of Charles IV, and Others	p. 220
A Chinese Fan Painting	p. 222
O'Keeffe	p. 223
Anselm Kiefer	p. 224
Holocaust	p. 225
Diaspora	p. 227
Millennial Polka	p. 228
About Time	p. 229
Acknowledgments	p. 231
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