poetry has to have that feeling of newness, freshness, openness to the future. It is a way of responding to time, to history-your personal history, a… - Alicia Ostriker
" "poetry has to have that feeling of newness, freshness, openness to the future. It is a way of responding to time, to history-your personal history, and the world's. A way of writing a kind of hopefulness into the form of your work.
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About Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Suskin Ostriker (born November 11, 1937) is an poet and scholar who is Jewish and lives in the USA.
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