Alicia Ostriker

Biographic Data

ID331006
NAMEAlicia Ostriker
GIVEN NAMESAlicia
FAMILY NAMEOstriker
SIGNATUREOSTRIKER A
AFFILIATIONSRutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR33
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • A Woman Under the Surface

    Alicia Ostriker, Alicia Suskin OstrikerBOOKWoman under the Surface2021

  • Woman under the Surface

    Alicia OstrikerBOOKWoman under the Surface2021

  • The Wandering Jewess

    Alicia OstrikerBOOKThe Bible and Feminism2018

    This chapter discusses the author’s development as a feminist poet who began wrestling with the Hebrew Bible and Jewish tradition in the mid-1980s, focusing primarily on two of her books. The Nakedness of the Fathers (1994) is part midrash, part autobiography, re-telling biblical narratives from Genesis to Job and beyond, from a Jewish woman’s perspective. The book combines poetry and prose; it concludes by anticipating ‘the return of the Mother’…

  • The Runner”

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEJournal of Narrative Theory2013

    “The Runner”1 Alicia Ostriker (bio) for Muriel Rukeyser Sweat glides on the forehead of the gasping runner Who runs of necessity, who runs possibly for love, For truth, for death, and her feet are sweltering. Behind the runner lies a battlefield. There, the dust falls. Ahead, the narrow road Eats a plateau, leads into streets and buildings, A beach, and the excavation of motherly ocean, Everything under the arch of an innocent sky. Sweat trickles…

  • The Broken Seed

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies2012

    782 Alicia Ostnker The Broken Seed For Claire Moses Rain washes around it until the seed breaks now watch how life in this broken seed presses down and spirals up and watch what happens next: the gray tendrils underground shut their eyes and suck the future limbs struggle forth crack through dirt start breathing for themselves and for us

  • Alzheimer's

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies2012

    Alicia Ostriker 781 Breast Dream I was showing my sister something about my breasts when glancing down suddenly I saw that I had only one and that the other lay flat,low, wrinkled, a rotted prune it's because I've been so long in the water I explained in panic and haste In the dream it was my right breast that was gone and my left one that remained, a nasty thing, stained brown as if a mug of coffee had been flung at it I looked at it as if under…

  • Breast Dream

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies2012

    Alicia Ostriker 781 Breast Dream I was showing my sister something about my breasts when glancing down suddenly I saw that I had only one and that the other lay flat,low, wrinkled, a rotted prune it's because I've been so long in the water I explained in panic and haste In the dream it was my right breast that was gone and my left one that remained, a nasty thing, stained brown as if a mug of coffee had been flung at it I looked at it as if under…

  • What the Butterfly Is Thinking

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies2012

    Alicia Ostriker WhattheButterfly Is Thinking Not a narcissist like me, it is not thinking about extending its brief life Or the serenade of iridescent blue patches on its fluttering wings Or the war. Or any of the other wars. Or the moon afloat on winter water. I am putting money on this. I am confident. The motions of many creatures appear random But are not? My husband says cows and bees — Cows and bees are swimming in his mouth Cows browsing a…

  • Red Diaper

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLESocialism and Democracy2009

  • Poems from No Heaven

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEWomen a Cultural Review2006

  • The Speech of the Creature

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies2004

  • Baby Carriages

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies2004

  • Dancing at the Devil's Party

    Alicia OstrikerBOOKDancing at the devil's party2000

  • Dancing at the Devil's Party

    Estella Lauter, Alicia Ostriker et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature2000

    The opening essay of this collection defines the difference between poetry and propaganda. Succeeding essays explore the meaning of politics, love and the spiritual life in the works of a number of leading poets

  • Visions and Revisions

    Alicia Ostriker, Ted HughesARTICLEThe Women s Review of Books1998

  • The Lilith Poems

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEWomen s Studies1997

    (1997). The Lilith Poems: For Enid Dame and Grace Paley. Women's Studies: Vol. 26, No. 3-4, pp. 251-257

  • Collaborative Portfolio

    Sheila Solomon, Au-My Lê et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies1995

  • Reflection on Jewish Identity

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies1989

  • Stealing the Language

    Diana George, Diana Hume George et al.ARTICLETulsa Studies in Women s Literature1987

  • Oedipus Anne

    Alicia Ostriker, Diana George et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly1987

  • Stealing the Language

    Wendy Martins, Wendy Martin et al.ARTICLEAmerican Literature1987

  • Dancing at the Devil's Party

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLECritical Inquiry1987

  • Two poems

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEWomen s Studies1986

  • In the Twenty-Fifth Year of Marriage, It Goes on

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies1985

  • The War of Men and Women

    Alicia OstrikerARTICLEFeminist Studies1985