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Book of Life, The : Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011, Paperback / softback Book

Book of Life, The : Selected Jewish Poems, 1979-2011 Paperback / softback

Part of the Pitt Poetry Series series

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Poet Alicia Ostriker is also a highly original scholar/teacher of midrash, the commentary and exegesis of scripture (the same root as madrasa, place of study).

Here she \u2018studies' Jewish history, Jewish passion, Jewish contradictions, in a compendium of learned, crafted, earthy and outward-looking poems that show how this quest has informed and enriched her whole poet's trajectory.\u201d-Marilyn Hacker

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