"Poet, feminist critic, and "midrashist" Alicia Ostriker will visit UCI at my invitation on the afternoon of Thursday, October 29, to discuss her work. She is in Southern California making a series of public appearances in connection with her most recent collection, "The Book of Seventy." The title is an allusion to her age as she wrote most of the poems in it. (She was born in 1937.) It is also a biblical allusion of a sort, to the Septuagint ("Seventy"), the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures. The attached statement about her is one prepared for the Community Scholar Program, a local membership group that she will address later on the 29th. If you Google her name and "Re-playing the Bible," you will be brought to a Project MUSE text of hers that joins an extended comment on Emily Dickinson to her writing program as of 1993, when she was completing The Nakedness of the Fathers, the work through which she and I made our initial epistolary acquaintance more than ten years ago."
Jack Miles, Professor of English
Event organized ans sponsored by the Department of English |