The Little Space
Subtitle: Poems Selected and New, 1968-1998
By: Alicia Suskin Ostriker.
Series: Pitt poetry series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
Description: In this selection of poems from thirty years of a distinguished writing career, we see the growth of a poet's mind, heart, and spirit as Ostriker struggles to love "this wounded / World that we cannot heal, that is our bride.".

Whether she probes the meaning of childhood, family, marriage, and motherhood, or art, history, politics, and God; whether she is celebrating sexuality or confronting mortality, the poet includes "whatever I can grasp of human experience within my art - the good and beautiful, the evil and chaotic. I tell my students that they must write what they are afraid to write; and I attempt to do so myself."