The Mother/Child Papers
1986
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In 1970, as the war in Vietnam was heating up, Ostriker was awaiting the birth of her son. On April 30, President Nixon announced the bombing of Cambodia. On May 14, four students were shot and killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State University. The poems in this collection confront Ostriker’s personal tumult as she considered the world she had brought her son into.
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Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Author · 17 books
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.
