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Arias by Sharon Olds
Category: Poetry & Plays
Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject m ...Show more
Arias by Sharon Olds
Category: Poetry
Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother's violence. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, Rasputin, the cervix, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again take ...Show more
Arias by Sharon Olds
Category: Poetry & Plays
Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject m ...Show more
Balladz by Sharon Olds
Category: Education
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY - Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down (San Francisco Chronicle). At the time of have-not, I look at my ...Show more
Balladz by Sharon Olds
Category: Poetry
Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times- a book of fear, fragililty and love of life. 'At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror,' writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating collection, which opens with a section of qu ...Show more
Balladz by Sharon Olds
Category: Poetry
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY * Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle)."At the time of have-not, I look at ...Show more
Father by Olds Sharon
Category: Education
Recently described by Joyce Carol Oates as a 'brilliant and fearless poet', Sharon Olds has long been regarded as a major American poet. When her selected poems were published in the UK in 1991, under the title The Sign of Saturn, she started to gather an enthusiastic audience in Britain. As Glyn Maxwel ...Show more
Odes by Sharon Olds
Category: Poetry
Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collectionStag s Leap, Sharon Olds gives us a stunning book of odes. Opening with the powerful and tender Ode to the Hymen, Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered ...Show more
Odes by Sharon Olds
Category: Poetry
Opening with a powerful and tender 'Ode to the Hymen', Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way on parts of her own story which will be familiar from earlier works, ...Show more