One Secret Thing

Awards:   Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2009 Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize 2009.
Author:   Sharon Olds
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
ISBN:  

9780224087841


Pages:   96
Publication Date:   05 March 2009
Format:   Paperback
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  • Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2009
  • Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize 2009.

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A stunning collection of poems focusing on the emotions involved in family life from the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. 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 humour, 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 revision, 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.

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Author:   Sharon Olds
Publisher:   Vintage Publishing
Imprint:   Jonathan Cape Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.118kg
ISBN:  

9780224087841


ISBN 10:   0224087843
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   05 March 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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A memorable collection -- M Wynn Thomas The Guardian


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Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012 collection, Stag's Leap, she is the author of twelve previous books of poetry and the winner of many other awards and honours. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped to found the NYU outreach programs, among them the writing workshop for residents of Isidor Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. She lives in New York City.

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