The Mother/Child Papers: With a New Preface by the Author - Paperback

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker (Author)

In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker's personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into.

Author Biography

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is the author of eleven previous poetry collections including: No Heaven; the volcano sequence; and The Little Space: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the William Carlos Williams Award, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award. Ostriker has also written nine volumes of poetry criticism. She is Professor Emerita of English at Rutgers University and teaches in the MFA program of Drew University.