Alicia Ostriker

Brought Down

Arts & Literature

“This was a real treat, walking so lightly along the line where the sacred and the profane meet with intelligence, imagination, and lots of charm. I kept being reminded of Ecclesiastes.”

Light in Light

Arts & Literature

“‘A certain kind of dazzle’ inhabits Gerrish’s endlessly lovely lines—‘snug like stepping into wool slippers on Sunday morning’—yet also ravishingly lit by spirit, by storm, by magic. ‘October air turning crisp like white transparent apples’ or a father’s voice ‘like soft thunder’—line by line, phrase by phrase, metaphor by metaphor, from girlhood memories to elegy to ancestors’ memories of genocide, Light in Light is one of the strongest, most delicate, visionary, and humane collections of American poetry I know.”