By Alicia Suskin Ostriker
With The Imaginary Lover, Alicia Suskin Ostriker takes her position one of the such a lot extraordinary and unique poets whose paintings is knowledgeable through feminist consciousness. Her characterization of the easiest poetry by means of ladies, within the New York occasions e-book Review, aptly describes this booklet: intimate instead of distant, passionate instead of far-off, defying divisions among emotion and mind, inner most and public, existence and artwork, author and reader.” To learn her poems is to discover not just extra of what it potential to be a girl yet extra of what it ability to be human.”
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For a while, with or without your left eye, You will continue. As Hesh that Hies from stars reverts to dust, Spirit remains, they say, whatever it was, Not subject to our accidents. I mean they used to say so. I am a student of this, an ignorant student, My love, my half-life. 36 WANTING ALL More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man. -William Blake Husband, it's fine the way your mind performs Like a circus, sharp As a sword somebody has To swallow, rough as a bear, Complicated as a family of jugglers, Brave as a sequined trapeze Artist, the only boy I ever met Who could beat me in argument Was why I married you, isn't it, And you have beaten me, I've beaten you, We are old polished hands.
She informs me it is ten years From when her mother wrote "I hope at least you are sorry For causing your father's heart attack," To now, when they are speaking Weekly on the phone And almost, even, waxing confidential. 1 check my watch. Ten years is rather much, But 1 am not a Texas Fundamentalist, And you are not a red-headed Lesbian, So it should take us shorter, and 1 should get Time off for good behavior If 1 behave well, which 1 do not plan to do. No, on the contrary, 1 plan to play All my cards wrong, To pelt you with letters, gifts, advice, Descriptions of my feelings.
I count its tears, its expended tissues, And I remember everything, I remember I swallowed the egg whole, the oval Smooth and delicately trembling, a firm virgin Sucked into mv oral chamber Surrendered to my mouth, my mouth to it. I recall how the interior gold burst forth ~ Under pressure, secret, secret, A pleasure softer, crazier than orgasm. Liquid yolk spurted on my chin, Keats's grape, and I too a trophy, I too a being in a trance, The possession of a goddess. Multiply the egg by a thousand, a billion.