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Olds, Sharon was born on November 19, 1942 in San Francisco, California, United States.
(Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections - 'B...)
Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections - 'Blood', 'Tin', ' 'Straw', ' 'Fire' and 'Light' - each made up of fourteen poems whose dominant imagery is drawn from one of these elements. The poems are rooted in different moments of an ordinary life and weave back and forth in time. Each section suggests the progression of the making of a soul cleansed by blood, forged by fire, suffused by light. Unafraid to confront the ecstatic or the brutal side of a woman's experience, Sharon Olds transforms the subjects with an alchemist's art, using language that is alternately casual and startling, fierce and transcendent. This is an intensely moving collection by one of America's finest poets.
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A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss.” This rich selection exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting experimentation with rhythm and language and a movement toward an embrace beyond the personal. Subjects are revisited–the pain of childhood, adolescent sexual stirrings, the fulfillment of marriage, the wonder of children–but each recasting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new perceptions and conceits. Strike Sparks is a testament to this remarkable poet’s continuing and amazing growth. From the Hardcover edition.
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(From Sharon Olds--a stunning new collection of poems that...)
From Sharon Olds--a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor. From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the transformative power of marital love, Sharon Olds takes risks, writing boldly of physical, emotional, and spiritual sensations that are seldom the stuff of poetry. These are poems that strike for the heart, as Sharon Olds captures our imagination with unexpected wordplay, sprung rhythms, and the disquieting revelations of ordinary life. Writing at the peak of her powers, this greatly admired poet gives us her finest collection. "From the Hardcover edition."
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(A new collection by the much praised poet whose second bo...)
A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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(From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that ...)
From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor. From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the transformative power of marital love, Sharon Olds takes risks, writing boldly of physical, emotional, and spiritual sensations that are seldom the stuff of poetry. These are poems that strike for the heart, as Sharon Olds captures our imagination with unexpected wordplay, sprung rhythms, and the disquieting revelations of ordinary life. Writing at the peak of her powers, this greatly admired poet gives us her finest collection. From the Hardcover edition.
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Olds, Sharon was born on November 19, 1942 in San Francisco, California, United States.
Bachelor, Stanford University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Columbia University, 1972.
Lecturer-in-residence on poetry, Theodor Herzl Institute, 1976-1980; Fanny Hurst chair, Brandeis U., Waltham, Massachusetts, 1986-1987; director graduate program in creative writing, New York University, 1988-1991; associate Professor of English, New York University, since 1992. Visiting teacher poetry Manhattan Theater Club, 1982, Poetry Center for Young Men’s Christian Association of New York City, 1982, Poetry Society of America, 1983, New York University, 1983, 85, Sarah Lawrence College, 1984, Goldwater Hospital, Roosevelt Island, New York, 1983-1995, Columbia University, 1986, State University of New York, Purchase, 1986. Adjunct Professor graduate program in creative writing New York University, 1983-1992.
(Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections - 'B...)
(A new collection by the much praised poet whose second bo...)
(From Sharon Olds--a stunning new collection of poems that...)
(From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that ...)
(The poems collected in this work deal with sexuality, pow...)
(A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and wid...)
(The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of Americ...)
Fellow: American Academy Arts and Sciences.