The variety of subjects in Green Age is characteristic of Alicia Suskin Ostriker’s writing: from the opening poem, “Fifty,” funny, courageous, and defiant, to a set of birthday poems for a grown daughter; from emulations of the Persian mystic Rumi, to the provactive “Meditation in Seven Days,” whose central assumption is that we may find in the Bible traces of a Canaanite goddess whose worship was forbidden with the advent of patriarchal monotheism.

Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. She is the author of numerous poetry collections, including, most recently, The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog; The Book of Life: Selected Jewish Poems, 1979–2011; and The Book of Seventy, winner of the National Jewish Book Award. She has received the Paterson Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, and has twice been a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors. Ostriker teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Drew University and is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

• Contents 
• I
• Fifty
• A Young Woman, a Tree
• Wanting to Be in Love as in Sunlight
• Helium
• George in Hospital
• Jersey Transit
• Moth in April
• A Birthday Suite
• Before Dawn
• The Secret Sharer
• Watching the Feeder
• American Loneliness
• II
• Stream
• Hating the World
• The Pure Products of America
• Windshield
• The Death Ghazals
• You Who Deny: A Harangue
• A Day of Heavy Fog
• The Bride
• A Meditation in Seven Days
• III
• Homage to Rumi: Seven Poems
• To Love Is
• Words for a Wedding
• To One in Mourning
• Move
• Notes