“Ostriker is among America’s leading poet-critics . . . An academic with a comprehensive command of the male canon, Ostriker challenged it early in her career; and whatever her misgivings about being labeled an intellectual, she is justifiably stuck with that title. It’s not so terrible to be an intellectual if you’re also a visionary, and now that Ginsberg is gone, Ostriker is contemporary poetry’s most Blakean figure. Like Blake, her vision of how things might be is grounded in anatomy of how things are. Ostriker is in love with a wounded world and wants us to heal it with the force of human imagination, compassion, and love. And she thinks we actually could. Two hundred pages seems, well, too little a space for a poet this large. . . . If the poet is afraid of loss, separation, betrayal, death, violence from without and within--and she is--she is fearless about her fear."
--Women's Review of Books

“The Little Space provides an excellent introduction to the work of American’s most fiercely honest poet. Alicia Suskin Ostriker is a political poet in the best sense. She is not afraid to names names or state her opinions, but her poems could nver be seen as political essays in verse. . . . Ostriker puts the reader to work, and she blenches at nothing that experience offers up.”

—The Progressive

“Openness and transparency mark this lively and moving collection by award-winning poet and feminist literary critic Ostriker. . . . Highly recommended.”

—Library Journal