Tag: Alicia Suskin Ostriker

The forty-two poems in Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s latest poetry collection, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog, are an enchanting epistemic study of the interaction between character perspective and language. Each poem, a “triptych” of three stanzas depicting three unusual characters—an old woman full of memories, a sultry tulip wearing an “upturned skirt,” and…