Stag's Leap

Stag's Leap PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307959902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.

Stag's Leap

Stag's Leap PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307959902
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
A poignant sequence of poems traces the evolution of a divorce while exploring themes of love, sex, sorrow, memory and freedom as reflected by everyday familiarities and the poignancy of former lovers parting, in a collection by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living.

Sharon's Collection of Poems

Sharon's Collection of Poems PDF Author: Sharon Wiegand
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781482530285
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Book Description
Sharon Wiegand was born in Oklahoma and moved to California later in life. She pursued writing as an outlet to her relationships with her family and friends. She lives in a retire- ment community with her husband and two dogs. She has written another poem book called Sharon's Poems of Life, Love, and Liberty and she has ventured into writting a few other books which you may find on her web site www.sharonsbook.com

One Secret Thing

One Secret Thing PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307804372
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Book Description
A powerful collection of poems about family and grief—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). Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy—sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger—public and private—illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. One Secret Thing is charged throughout with Sharon Olds’s characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power. The doctor on the phone was young, maybe on his first rotation in the emergency room. On the ancient boarding-school radio, in the attic hall, the announcer had given my boyfriend’s name as one of two brought to the hospital after the sunrise service, the egg-hunt, the crash—one of them critical, one of them dead. I was looking at the stairwell banisters, at their lathing, the necks and knobs like joints and bones, the varnish here thicker here thinner—I had said Which one of them died, and now the world was an ant’s world: the huge crumb of each second thrown, somehow, up onto my back, and the young, tired voice said my fresh love’s name. from “Easter 1960”

Gold Cell

Gold Cell PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307760839
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 109

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Book Description
A dazzling collection of poems 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). A 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.

Post Romantic

Post Romantic PDF Author: Kathleen Flenniken
Publisher: Pacific Northwest Poetry
ISBN: 9780295747798
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"Post romantic, the twenty-first volume in the Pacific Northwest poetry series, is published with the generous support of Cynthia Lovelace Sears"--Title page verso.

Strike Sparks

Strike Sparks PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0375710760
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
From one of our most gifted and widely read poets—the winner of the Pulitzter Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize—comes a powerful collection of 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.

Odes

Odes PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473546303
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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‘Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.’ Charlotte Mendelson, Observer Book of the Year 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, each episode and memory now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such poems as ‘Ode to My Sister’, ‘Ode of Broken Loyalty’, ‘Ode to My Whiteness’, ‘Blow Job Ode’, ‘Ode to the Last 38 Trees in New York City Visible from This Window’, Olds treats us to an intimate self-examination that, like all her work, is universal and by turns searing and charming in its honesty. From the early bodily joys and sorrows of her girlhood to the recent deaths of those dearest to her – the ‘Sheffield Mountain Ode’ for Galway Kinnell is one of the most stunning pieces here – Olds shapes her world in language that is startlingly fresh, profound in its conclusions, and life-giving for the reader.

Blood, Tin, Straw

Blood, Tin, Straw PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409001288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Book Description
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.

Satan Says

Satan Says PDF Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822934134
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"First published in 1980, the classic poetry of Sharon Olds' Satan Says was introduced to college courses twenty years ago, and still maintains a wide usage today. Few first books have the power or vigor of design of Satan Says. Marilyn Hacker described it as 'a daring and elegant first book. This is a poetry which affirms and redeems the art'"--Publisher's description.

Sharon's Verses

Sharon's Verses PDF Author: Sharon Maloney
Publisher: Sharon Maloney
ISBN: 141378335X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Book Description
Sharon's Verses will make you aware of your life. By reading my poems you will learn to believe in yourself and your own abilities. God is explored on a spiritual and emotional level. You can learn what God is and what he can do for you in your struggles and hardships. Love is explored as a dream or realistic sensation, which can mean "grown as a flower" or it "fills up the deep blue sea." You can learn about love in my poems in a special way. Dreaming about love can be looked at in relationships. It can mean missing a girl or having a long-lost love. Love and friendship go hand in hand, like in my poem "Rich Friend." Friends are forever, and so is love when it is real. Nature is looked at in a beautiful fashion, such as blossoms, doves, or turtles' eggs. The beach is where someone wants to be reunited with their remembered love. Nature is a wonderful part of life, and the poem "Wonderful Things Should Last" expresses this beauty. My book will enrich your life as it does mine. Please read it and remember where you are going in this world. It can be sailing, church, or to a barbecue with friends. My poems will cover these topics and more. Enjoy!