Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Alicia Ostriker
Born: November 11, 1937 (age 87)
Bio: Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. She was called "America's most fiercely honest poet," by Progressive.
Known for:
- The Book of Seventy (2009)
- The volcano sequence (2002)
- The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog (2014)
- The imaginary lover (1986)