The Mother/Child Papers

With a new preface by the author

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
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Author: Alicia Ostriker ISBN: 9780822978268
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press Publication: February 22, 2009
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press Language: English
Author: Alicia Ostriker
ISBN: 9780822978268
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication: February 22, 2009
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English

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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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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