Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New ... [... more]
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Otherwise: New & Selected Poems
 From Amazon.com: This collection stands as something of a tribute to Jane Kenyon, who died in 1995 at the age of 48. Otherwise contains 20 new poems plus selected works from her four previous collections. The situations from which her lively writing [... more]
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Poetry On Record 98 Poets Rea
Artist: Various Artists Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0826663100297 Format: Compilation MPN: 31002 Number Of Discs: 4 Original Release Date: 2006-04-18 Release Date: 2007-12-17 UPC: 826663100297 Tracks: Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred Lord Tennyson, [... more]
CDN$53.99
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Earth-Shattering Poems
definitely earth-shattering: I love this book, and think of it as my "secular bible," by which I mean I can always find something I need when I need it. Some of my old favorite poems are in here, like "Sometimes with One I Love" by [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Identity Lessons
Wonderful Insights: IDENTITY LESSONS was a great learning experience for me. Not only did I learn about my own heritage but about many others, what America is all about. This collection of work is honest and thoughtful. I have used it in the classrooms [... more]
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Poems To Live By in Uncertain Times
a collection for all times of life: When I saw this book at the bookstore, my first thought was Oh no, is this a book reacting to the events of September 11th? I picked it up and sure enough, it was published after September 11, but after reading the [... more]
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The Unswept Room
The evolution and experimentation of poetry: I applaud Sharon Olds for not bowing to the literati's mandate that all poetry must rhyme, be a sonnet, a villanelle, pantoum. This is free verse at its finest. It may not subscribe to a "type" but [... more]
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The Dead and the Living
Words were never this deep until now...: I like to think myself a poet. When I pick up a pen I am feeling out my life through the tiny cuts and scars of my hands. I am reaching for feeling and the heavy bud of truth. Sharon Olds has taught me words so [... more]
CDN$23.00
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Satan Says
From Amazon.com: Commenting on Sharon Olds' debut, Linda Pastan wrote that Olds was "clearly a poet to be reckoned with." No kidding. Olds has gone on to create an impressively bold body of work. Notice here "The Language of the Brag," [... more]
CDN$14.05
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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
Author: Sharon Olds Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9781400042784 ISBN: 140004278X Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2004-09-28 Release Date: 2004-09-28 [... more]
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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
Author: Sharon Olds Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54 EAN: 9780375710766 ISBN: 0375710760 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: 2004-09-28 Release Date: 2004-09-28 [... more]
CDN$23.95
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The Wellspring: Poems
From Amazon.com: The theme of Sharon Olds' fifth volume of poetry, The Wellspring is family and the sexual and sensual nature of the creation and sustenance of life--most often her own. From a time in her mother's life that preceded her own birth (" [... more]
CDN$21.00
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