Selected Poems
A Poetry book. As raw, self-obsessed and self-aware as Frida Kahlo! And way ahead of...
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by the author - 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 fulfilment of marriage, the wonder of children - but each re-casting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new perceptions and conceits.A powerful distillation of the best work from one of America's...
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I was first introduced to the work of Sharon Olds when I heard one of her poems in the 'Into the Wild' film. In fact, she worked closely with Sean Penn and Carine when making it. I immediately looked up the author, and ordered a copy of 'The Gold Cell' from a bookstore.Fast forward a few years and this book fell into my hands. Again,... Searing, honest, lyrical and shocking- Olds is a deserving winner of the TS Eliot prize; looking forward to reading Stag's Leap. Highly recommend this selection as an introduction to her work. As raw, self-obsessed and self-aware as Frida Kahlo! And way ahead of her time....
