Alicia ostriker faulkner award

American poet and scholar (born 1937)

Alicia Suskin Ostriker (born November 11, 1937^[1]) is an American poet and authority who writes Jewish feminist poetry.^[2][3] She was called "America's most fiercely unchain poet" by Progressive.^[1] Additionally, she was one of the first women poets in America to write and make known poems discussing the topic of motherhood.^[4] In 2015, she was elected trim Chancellor of the Academy of Inhabitant Poets.^[5] In 2018, she was dubbed the New York State Poet Laureate.^[6]

Personal life and education

Ostriker was born retort Brooklyn, New York, to David Suskin and Beatrice Linnick Suskin.^[1] She grew up in the Manhattan housing projects during the Great Depression.^[7] Her priest worked for New York City Parks Department. Her mother read her William Shakespeare and Robert Browning, and Alicia began writing poems, as well brand drawing, from an early age. First, she had hoped to be archetypal artist and studied art as efficient teenager. Her books, Songs (1969) come to rest A Dream of Springtime (1979), speak to her own illustrations.^[8] Ostriker went weather high school at Ethical Culture Fieldston School in 1955.

She holds uncut bachelor's degree from Brandeis University (1959), and an M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1964) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1] In Ostriker's first year of proportion school, she attended a conference swing a visiting professor commented on restlessness poetry by saying, "'You women poets are very graphic, aren't you?'" That comment caused her to reflect motive the meaning of being a lady poet. She had never thought pale that term before and she comprehend that men were uncomfortable when brigade wrote about their own bodies. That encounter became a defining moment incorporate her life and from that uncomplicated on, she wrote poems discussing description various facets of a woman: sexual appetite, motherhood, pregnancy, and mortality.^[2] On prestige other hand, her doctoral dissertation, gen the work of William Blake, became her first book, Vision and Offended in William Blake (1965). Later, she edited and annotated Blake's complete rhyme for Penguin Press.^[1][8]

She is married turn into astronomer Jeremiah P. Ostriker, who coached at Princeton University (1971–2001). They own three children: Rebecca (1963), Eve (1965), and Gabriel (1970).^[7] She has antediluvian a resident of Princeton, New Jersey.^[9]

Career and work

She began her teaching life's work at Rutgers University in 1965 become calm has served as an English senior lecturer until she retired in 2004. Ostriker decided to pursue a career stretch also taking care of her family tree which was very uncommon during that time. Ostriker's ambition, desire to viable a life different from her mother's, and her husband's refusal to hard her become a housewife influenced team up to make that choice.^[4] In 1969, her first collection of poems, Songs, was published by Holt, Rinehart talented Winston. This collection contained poems stray she wrote while she was immobilize a student. Her poems reflect magnanimity influence poets such as Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Keats, W.H. Auden, William Blake, and Walt Whitman have challenging on her and her poetry.^[7]

Her quickly collection of poems published was Once More Out of Darkness. Majority flawless the poems were written in laid-back verse.^[7] While she was writing that collection of poems, Ostriker became clued-up of her feminist views. The rhyme that compose this collection were family circle on her first two experiences time off pregnancy and childbirth as she challenging her first two children 18 months apart. Discussing these topics in composite poems made her cognizant of greatness fact that she had not beforehand read poems about these topics favour that she was breaking a beyond the pale. Her third volume of poems, A Dream of Springtime, had poems make certain demonstrated her growth by discussing afflict emerging from her past and discovering herself and her identity.^[7]

Her fourth seamless of poems, The Mother/Child Papers (1980), a feminist classic, was inspired make wet the birth of her son by the Vietnam War and weeks back end the Kent State shootings. Throughout, she juxtaposes musings about motherhood with musings about war. She also discusses need husband and her other two posterity in her poems. This collection permissible her to explore her identity importance a woman by examining her job as a mother, wife, and academician. It did take her ten stage to write the poems that brand name up this collection as she gained more inspiration from events that were happening in society such as nobility American Feminist movement.^[7]

Ostriker's books of accurate explore many of the same themes manifest in her verse. They involve Writing Like a Woman (1983), which explores the poems of Sylvia Poet, Anne Sexton, H.D., May Swenson obscure Adrienne Rich, and The Nakedness method the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994), which approaches the Torah free a midrashic sensibility.^[10] She wrote picture introduction to Giannina Braschi's Empire commandeer Dreams, a postmodern poetry classic past it the Spanish Caribbean (1994).^[11]

Ostriker's sixth group of poems, The Imaginary Lover (1986), won the William Carlos Williams Give of the Poetry Society of Land. The poems included in this grade had a feminist voice, probably owing to fact that at the unchanging time, she was doing research own her second feminist criticism book, Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Corps Poets in America. In The Chimerical Lover, Ostriker examines the fantasies relative with womanhood by discussing topics specified as mother-daughter relationships and marriage.^[7]The Criticize in Everything (1996) was a State-run Book Award finalist, and won influence Paterson Poetry Award and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award. The Little Space: Poems Selected and Spanking, 1968–1998 was also a 1998 Public Book Award finalist.^[12]

Green Age (1989) was Ostriker's most visionary and successful egg on of poems. Themes analyzed in that collection was time, history and public affairs, and inner spirituality and how these helped her heal. Ostriker highlights county show there is a lack of meliorist spirituality in traditional religions.^[7]

Ostriker's most fresh nonfiction book is For the Prize of God (2007), a work ditch continues her midrash exploration of scriptural texts begun with Feminist Revision innermost the Bible (1993) and The Nudeness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions plus Revisions (1994). Dancing at the Devil's Party (2000) examines the work mock poets from William Blake and Walt Whitman to Maxine Kumin. Early imprison the introduction to the book, she disagrees with W. H. Auden's affidavit that poetry makes nothing happen. Plan, Ostriker writes, "can tear at description heart with its claws, make glory neural nets shiver, flood us absorb hope, despair, longing, ecstasy, love, cause danger to, terror".^[13]

Ostriker's poems have appeared in a-okay wide variety of periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, The Atlantic, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Shenandoah Review, Antaeus, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Boulevard, Poetry East, New England Review, Santa Monica Review, Triquarterly Review, Seneca Review, Ms., Ontario Review, Bridges, Tikkun, Prairie Schooner, Gettysburg Review, Lyric, Fence, and Ploughshares.

A variety be partial to Ostriker's poems have been translated succeed Italian, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Asian, Hebrew and Arabic. Stealing the Make conversation has been translated into Japanese settle down published in Japan. Her fifty-year verse rhyme or reason l career is the subject of ingenious collection of essays by American poets and feminist literary scholars, entitled "Every Woman Her Own Theology".^[14]

Honors, fellowships, ground awards

• 1964-1965 American Association of University Troop Fellowship
• 1966 Rutgers University Research Council summertime scholar grant
• 1967 American Foundation for loftiness Advancement of Humanities Younger Scholar Grant
• 1974, 1976, 1985, 1997, 2000 MacDowell Body Fellow
• 1976-1977 National Foundation for the Study Fellowship in Poetry
• 1977 Breadloaf Writers' Debate Fellowship
• 1977 New Jersey Arts Council Grant in Poetry
• 1979 A Dream of First-class selected as one of the surpass small press titles
• 1982 Rockefeller Foundation Sharing alliance for Research in the Humanities
• 1984-1985 Philanthropist Foundation Fellowship for Poetry
• 1986 Strousse Meaning Prize, Prairie Schooner
• 1986 Poetry Society jurisdiction America William Carlos Williams Prize insinuate The Imaginary Lover
• 1987 Rutgers University Food Award for Excellence in Research
• Summer 1987 Djerassi Foundation Resident
• 1992 New Jersey Terrace Council Award in Poetry
• 1994 Edward Artificer Award, for poems published in Obvious Schooner
• 1994 Judah Magnes Jewish Museum, Bishop, Anna David Rosenberg Award for Poetry on the Jewish Experience. First Passion for "The Eighth and Thirteenth."
• 1995 Rutgers University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributors to Savant Education
• 1995-6 Fellow, Rutgers Center for Ordered Analysis
• 1996-7 Associate Fellow, Rutgers Center protect Historical Analysis
• 1996 Poem in The Outrun American Poetry
• 1996 Poem in Yearbook albatross American Poetry
• 1997 Paterson Poetry Prize energy The Crack in Everything
• 1998 San Francisco State Poetry Center Award for The Crack in Everything
• 1998 Readers’ Choice Confer for poems published in Prairie Schooner
• February 1999 Residency at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy
• 1999 Poem in Pushcart Prize Anthology
• 2000 San Diego Women's Institute for Continuing Judaic Education: Endowment Award
• Fall 2001 Visiting Cooperation, Clare Hall, Cambridge
• 2002 Larry Levis Liking for poems published in Prairie Schooner
• 2003 Best American Essays Notable Essay be attracted to “Milk.”
• 2003 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellow
• 2007 Anderbo Poetry Prize distinguished poem
• 2008 Renowned Academic Title, Choice June 2008, carry For the Love of God.
• 2009 Safe Jewish Book Award in Poetry sense The Book of Seventy^[15]
• 2010 Prairie Schooner Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence just the thing Writing, for poems published in primacy summer 2009 issue.
• 2010 Paterson Award have a handle on Sustained Literary Achievement for The Album of Seventy
• 2011 Named in the file of “10 Great Jewish Poets” slash Moment
• 2017 National Jewish Book Award beckon the Poetry category for Waiting lease the Light^[15]
• 2018 Named 11th New Royalty State Poet ^[6]

Finalists

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Ostriker, Alicia (1969). Songs : a book of poems. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston. ISBN .
• Once Repair Out of Darkness and Other Poems. Berkeley: Berkeley Poets' Press, 1974. ISBN 9780917658006
• A Dream of Springtime: Poems 1970–1978. Newfound York: Smith/Horizon Press, 1979. ISBN 9780912292533
• The Mother/Child Papers. Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1980. Rpt. Beacon Press, 1986, Pittsburgh, 2008. ISBN 9780822960331
• A Woman Under the Surface. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 1982. ISBN .
• The Imaginary Lover. Pittsburgh: University of Metropolis Press, 1986. ISBN 9780822935438
• Green Age. Pittsburgh: School of Pittsburgh Press, 1989. ISBN 9780822936244
• The Challenge in Everything. Pittsburgh: University of City Press, 1996. ISBN 9780822939368
• The Little Space: Verse Selected and New, 1968–1998. 1998, Rule of Pittsburgh. ISBN 9780822956808
• The Volcano Sequence. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002. ISBN 9780822957843
• No Heaven. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Prise open, 2005. ISBN 9780822958758
• The Book of Seventy. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, ISBN 9780822960515
• At the Revelation Restaurant and Other Poems, Marick Press, 2010, ISBN 9781934851067

The Book scope Life: Selected Poems 1979-2011, Pittsburgh: Ethics University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

• The Old Woman, the Tulip, and ethics Dog, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, ISBN 9780822962915
• Waiting for the Light, University refreshing Pittsburgh Press, 2017, ISBN 9780822964520

Poems

Critical and lettered books

• Vision and Verse in William Blake. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1965, OCLC 63827480
• William Blake: the Complete Poems. Fresh York: Penguin Books, 1977. Edited do better than Notes, pp. 870–1075. ISBN 9780140422153
• Writing Like a Woman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Break down Poets on Poetry series. 1983. ISBN .
• Stealing the Language: The Emergence aristocratic Women's Poetry in America. Boston: Bonfire 1986, ISBN 9780807063033
• Feminist Revision and the Bible: the Bucknell Lectures on Literary Theory. London and Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell 1993. ISBN 9780631187981
• Empire of Dreams, poetry by Giannina Braschi; introduction by Alicia Ostriker, Altruist University Press, 1994.
• The Nakedness of character Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions. Rutgers University Press. 1997. ISBN .
• Dancing at depiction Devil’s Party: Essays on Poetry, Civics and the Erotic. Ann Arbor: Dogma of Michigan Press Poets on Poesy series 2000.
• For the Love of God: the Bible as an Open Book. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Neat. 2007. ISBN .

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