Alicia Ostriker

Alicia Ostriker is the author of Stealing the Language: the Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America. Her most recent books are Waiting for the Light and The Volcano and After, a selected and new collection. She was New York State Poet Laureate 2018–2021.

Poetry

‘Tachycardia,’ ‘Tachycardia: Reprise’,’ A Woman’, ‘Ritual in Plague Time’, ‘The Dreaming Woman/The Daughter’

Tachycardia Tachycardia all day yesterday faint 8 a.m. by evening a fast thud-thud insistent as if someone is trying to tell me something in a language I don’t know the sign language of a being that expresses itself in beats and is becoming impatient with my ignorance we used to

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