The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011 (Pitt Poetry Series)

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