Strike Sparks Selected Poems, 1980-2002

Name: Strike Sparks Selected Poems, 1980-2002
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ISBN: 9780375710766

ISBN-10: 0375710760

ISBN-13: 9780375710766

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sharon Olds

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.85" wide x 8.35" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco. She lives in New York City.



from Satan Says (1980)


Indictment of Senior Officers


The Sisters of Sexual Treasure


Station


Monarchs


Infinite Bliss


The Language of the Brag


The Talk


I Could Not Tell


from The Dead and the Living (1984)


Ideographs


Photograph of the Girl


Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921


Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once


Miscarriage


My Father Snoring


The Moment


The Connoisseuse of Slugs


New Mother


Sex Without Love


Ecstasy


Exclusive


Rite of Passage


35/10


The Missing Boy


Bestiary


The One Girl at the Boys' Party


from The Gold Cell (1987)


Summer Solstice, New York City


On the Subway


The Food-Thief


The Girl


The Pope's Penis


When


I Go Back to May 1937


Alcatraz


Why My Mother Made Me


After 37 Years My Mother Apologizes for My Childhood


Cambridge Elegy


Topography


I Cannot Forget the Woman in the Mirror


The Moment the Two Words Meet


Little Things


The Month of June: 13 1/2


Looking at Them Asleep


from The Father (1992)


The Glass


His Stillness


The Lifting


The Race


Wonder


The Feelings


His Ashes


Beyond Harm


The Underlife


Natural History


The Ferryer


I Wanted to Be There When My Father Died


Waste Sonata


My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead


from The Wellspring (1996)


My Parents' Wedding Night, 1937


Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942


Killing My Sister's Fish


Mrs. Krikorian


First


Adolescence


May 1968


Bathing the New Born


41, Alone, No Gerbil


Physics


My Son the Man


First Formal


High School Senior


The Pediatrician Retires


This Hour


Full Summer


Am and Am Not


True Love


from Blood, Tin, Straw (1999)


The Promise


Know-Nothing


Dear Heart


19


That Day


After Punishment Was Done with Me


What Is the Earth?


Leaving the Island


The Prepositions


1954


Cool Breeze


For and Against Knowledge


The Spouses Waking Up in the Hotel Mirror


You Kindly


Where Will Love Go?


The Protestor


The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb


The Talkers


First Thanksgiving


The Native


The Knowing


from The Unswept Room (2002)


Kindergarten Abecedarian


Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.


5[cent] a Peek


Grey Girl


Still Life in Landscape


The Wedding Vow


His Costume


First Weeks


The Clasp


Diaphragm Aria


The Window


Fish Oil


Wonder as Wander


The Shyness


April, New Hampshire


The Untangling


The Learner


Heaven to Be


The Tending


Psalm


The Unswept