Woman Under the Surface - Poems and Prose Poems

From A Woman Under the Surface:
MOON AND EARTH

Alicia Ostriker

Of one substance, of one
Matter, they have cruelly
Broken apart. They never will touch

Each other again. The shining
Lovelier and younger
Turns away, a pitiful girl.

She is completely naked
And it hurts. The larger
Motherly one, breathlessly luminous

Emerald, and blue, and white
Traveling mists, suffers
Birth and death, birth

and death, and the shock
Of internal heat killed by external cold.
They are dancing through that blackness.

They press as if
To come closer.

About the author

Alicia Ostriker

Summary

Alicia Ostriker Of one substance, of one Matter, they have cruelly Broken apart. They never will touch Each other again. The shining Lovelier and younger Turns away, a pitiful girl. She is completely naked And it hurts.

Additional text

"Cool, cerebral, studied. Passionate, visceral, immediate. Can the same poet write both kinds of poems? . . . Alicia Ostriker is not only writing both kinds of poems-she also is fashioning poems that are cold and fiery at the same time."

Product details

• Authors: Alicia Ostriker, Alicia Suskin Ostriker
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.05.1982
• EAN: 9780691013909
• ISBN: 978-0-691-01390-9
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets; Princeton Series of Contempora; Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Myth & legend told as fiction, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales