The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog (Pitt Poetry Series)

This Book By A Major American Poet Is For Poetry Readers At All Levels, Academic And Non-academic. It Is A Sequence Of Poems That Will Surprise And Delight Readers--in The Voices Of An Old Woman Full Of Memories, A Glamorous Tulip, And An Earthy Dog Who Always Has The Last Word. The Blessing Of The Old Woman, The Tulip, And The Dog -- The Vow -- Deer Walk Upon Our Mountains -- Wrong About The Horse -- The Drink Triptych -- The Panel Discussion : How Mistaken Is Sophocles -- The Promise Triptych -- Song -- The Beautiful Morning Triptych -- The Wind That Blows Through Me -- What We Love -- Prayer -- April -- Soften And Melt -- In Every Life -- Try To -- The Fear Triptych -- Ridiculous -- The Outsiders -- Anger I : Gray Cement -- The Moment On Stage I -- Church -- The Synagogue Of The Ear Of Corn -- They Speak Of Race -- Awakening -- I Want To Live -- What Is Now Seen Was Once Only Imagined -- Bright Star And Devil Moon -- Snow Day -- The Sorrow Triptych -- The Arts -- The Moment On Stage Ii -- Anger Ii : The Rape -- Liberty -- To A Pregnant Woman -- The Beginning Of Time -- Sweet Chariot -- Brightness Falls From The Air -- In War Time -- Paw On Your Lap -- Many Lives -- Summertime. Alicia Suskin Ostriker. Poetry. The blessing of the old woman, the tulip, and the dog -- The vow -- Deer walk upon our mountains -- Wrong about the horse -- The drink triptych -- The panel discussion : how mistaken is Sophocles -- The promise triptych -- Song -- The beautiful morning triptych -- The wind that blows through me -- What we love -- Prayer -- April -- Soften and melt -- In every life -- Try to -- The fear triptych -- Ridiculous -- The outsiders -- Anger I : gray cement -- The moment on stage I -- Church -- The Synagogue of the ear of corn -- They speak of race -- Awakening -- I want to live -- What is know seen was once only imagined -- Bright star and devil moon -- Snow day -- The sorrow triptych -- The arts -- The moment on stage II -- Anger II : the rape -- Liberty -- To a pregnant woman -- The beginning of time -- Sweet chariot -- Brightness falls from the air -- In war time -- Paw on your lap -- Many lives -- Summertime.