The middle years of the twentieth century were a time of profound and rapid change. The world had recently experienced the Great Depression and World War II. No

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Alicia Suskin Ostriker is that rare combination, a writer equally admired as poet and critic. The variety of subjects in Green Age is characteristic of her writ

The author's poems celebrate Earth and reflect a concern for its survival in an age of pollution.

Tale of a 12-year-old orphan girl in a small Kansas town.