Waiting for the Light.
Ostriker, Alicia Suskin.
Waiting for the Light. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (96 pages) - Pitt Poetry Series . - Pitt Poetry Series .
Intro -- Contents -- One -- August Morning, Upper Broadway -- The Light -- How Fortunate the Boy -- Q& -- A: Red Red Rose -- Manahatta -- The First Snowfall -- The Glory of Cities -- Bangladesh: The Driver -- Guyana: So Nice -- Times Square -- Dry Hours: A Golden Shovel Exercise -- Two -- The City Crocuses -- Cinco de Mayo -- Biking to the George Washington Bridge -- Ghazal: The Minimum Wage, 2014 -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- Ghazal: O Clear Night -- Four Men around a Card Table, Columbus & -- 97th -- A Walker in the City -- Acrostic: All You Need Is Love -- Waiting for the Light -- For Once, Then, Something -- Three -- Ghazal: America -- Afghanistan: The Raped Girl -- White Morning -- Ghazal: Not Even There -- Q& -- A: Insurance -- Making a Meal of Them -- The World According to Capa -- Are You My Cousin -- The Battlefield: A Lyric -- Children's Blood -- Temblor -- Four -- Alphabetical Flash -- The Liberal Arts -- The Common Crow Fibonacci -- The Redeemed World -- To Charlie, on His Poetry -- China in the Twenty-First Century -- Underground -- Ghazal: America the Beautiful -- Q& -- A: Reality -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora, asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle.".
9780822982470
American poetry-21st century.
Electronic books.
PS617 .O887 2017
811.6
Waiting for the Light. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (96 pages) - Pitt Poetry Series . - Pitt Poetry Series .
Intro -- Contents -- One -- August Morning, Upper Broadway -- The Light -- How Fortunate the Boy -- Q& -- A: Red Red Rose -- Manahatta -- The First Snowfall -- The Glory of Cities -- Bangladesh: The Driver -- Guyana: So Nice -- Times Square -- Dry Hours: A Golden Shovel Exercise -- Two -- The City Crocuses -- Cinco de Mayo -- Biking to the George Washington Bridge -- Ghazal: The Minimum Wage, 2014 -- Dark Matter and Dark Energy -- Ghazal: O Clear Night -- Four Men around a Card Table, Columbus & -- 97th -- A Walker in the City -- Acrostic: All You Need Is Love -- Waiting for the Light -- For Once, Then, Something -- Three -- Ghazal: America -- Afghanistan: The Raped Girl -- White Morning -- Ghazal: Not Even There -- Q& -- A: Insurance -- Making a Meal of Them -- The World According to Capa -- Are You My Cousin -- The Battlefield: A Lyric -- Children's Blood -- Temblor -- Four -- Alphabetical Flash -- The Liberal Arts -- The Common Crow Fibonacci -- The Redeemed World -- To Charlie, on His Poetry -- China in the Twenty-First Century -- Underground -- Ghazal: America the Beautiful -- Q& -- A: Reality -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
What is it like living today in the chaos of a city that is at once brutal and beautiful, heir to immigrant ancestors "who supposed their children's children would be rich and free?" What is it to live in the chaos of a world driven by "intolerable, unquenchable human desire?" How do we cope with all the wars? In the midst of the dark matter and dark energy of the universe, do we know what train we're on? In this cornucopia of a book, Ostriker finds herself immersed in phenomena ranging from a first snowfall in New York City to the Tibetan diaspora, asking questions that have no reply, writing poems in which "the arrow may be blown off course by storm and returned by miracle.".
9780822982470
American poetry-21st century.
Electronic books.
PS617 .O887 2017
811.6