Psalm

Alicia Ostriker

2002

I am not lyric any more
I will not play the harp
for your pleasure
I will not make a joyful
noise to you, neither
will I lament
for I know you drink
lamentation, too,
like wine
so I dully repeat
you hurt me
I hate you
I pull my eyes away from the hills
I will not kill for you
I will never love you again
unless you ask me
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Creator Bio

Alicia Ostriker

b. 1937

Alicia Ostriker, a poet and literary critic, grew up in New York and is a professor at Rutgers University as well as a faculty member of the New England College MFA Program. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, Ostriker has received numerous honors, including the Jewish Book Award for Poetry, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Poetry Society of America, and the Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations.

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