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OverviewFrom the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead. Larry Lewis say, “The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called ‘beauty.’” It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers. The Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sharon OldsPublisher: Alfred A. Knopf Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf Dimensions: Width: 14.60cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.108kg ISBN: 9780394715636ISBN 10: 0394715632 Pages: 96 Publication Date: 12 February 1984 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPart One: Poems for the Dead I. PUBLIC Ideographs Photograph of the Girl Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 Portrait of a Child Nevsky Prospekt The Death of Marilyn Monroe The Issues Aesthetics of the Shah Things That Are Worse Than Death II. PRIVATE The Guild Grandmother Love Poem The Eye Birthday Poem for My Grandmother Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once Farewell Poem The Winter After Your Death Miscarriage The End Best Friends Absent One Part Two: Poems for the Living I. THE FAMILY Possessed The Victims The Forms The Departure Burn Center The Ideal Father Fate My Father Snoring The Moment My Father's Breasts The Takers The Pact The Derelict Late Speech with My Brother The Elder Sister II. THE MEN The Connoisseuse of Slugs Poem to My First Lover New Mother The Line The Fear of Oneself Poem to My Husband from My Father's Daughter Sex Without Love Ecstasy III. THE CHILDREN Exclusive Six-Year-Old Boy Eggs Size and Sheer Will For My Daughter Rite of Passage Relinquishment Son Pre-Adolescent in Spring Blue Son Pajamas The Killer The Sign of Saturn Armor 35/10 The Missing Boy Bread Bestiary The One Girl at the Boys' Party The CoupleReviewsAuthor InformationSHARON OLDS was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book of poems, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the N.Y.U. workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. More recently she was awarded the Walt Whitman Citation for Merit by the New York State Writers Institute of the State University of New York. The citation officially invested her with the title of New York State Poet for 1998-2000. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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