The Imaginary Lover

by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

• Winner of the 1987 William Carlos Williams Award presented by the Poetry Society of America

With The Imaginary Lover , Alicia Suskin Ostriker takes her place among the most striking and original poets whose work is informed by feminist consciousness.  Her characterization of the best poetry by women, in the New York Times Book Review , aptly describes this “intimate rather than remote, passionate rather than distant, defying divisions between emotion and intellect, private and public, life and art, writer and reader.”  To read her poems is to “discover not only more of what it means to be a woman but more of what it means to be human.”

Genres: Poetry

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.

Reviews

[menal · Rating 2 out of 5]

the few lines that i hyper fixated upon were beautiful, but this honestly took me far longer to get through than it should have

[Alex · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of these poems were phenomenal. Please contact me if you would like recommendations, or even a singular beautiful poem to read.

[Julia Santamaria · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a lovely book