"I find The Nakedness of the Fathers exciting and moving.

I feel certain that many readers will share in the excite-ment-seeing how these ancient texts weave into the imagination and experience of a contemporary poet and a woman."-ELAINE PAGELS, author of The Gnostic Gospels

"Transgressive, devout, poetic, bawdy, Ostriker's book executes a Jewish feminist's contradance with tradition and makes of it an ecstatic celebration, "-MARILYN HACKER, poet and former editor of Kenyon Review

"All of us who are women poets, idol breakers and revi-sionists feel a deep kinship to the work of Alicia Ostriker, and a debt as well. -ELEANOR WILNER, RECIPIENT OF A MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIP AND AUTHOR OF Sarah's Gift