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OverviewA powerful new collection of poetry by the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author features 107 of her finest works, collected from her seven published volumes--including Blood, Tin, Straw and The Wellspring--that capture such themes as adolescent sexual stirrings, the fulfillment of marriage, the pain of childhood with an abusive father, Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sharon OldsPublisher: Random House Australia Imprint: Knopf Australia Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.20cm Weight: 0.281kg ISBN: 9780375710766ISBN 10: 0375710760 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 28 September 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsFrom 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 Worlds Meet Little Things The Month of June: 13½ 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¢ 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 UnsweptReviewsAuthor InformationSHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and was educated at Stanford and Columbia. She was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and was one of the founders of the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Her work has received the Harriet Monroe Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American Poets, and the San Francisco Poetry Center Award. She lives in New York City. Sharon Olds’s The Dead and the Living; The Gold Cell; The Wellspring; The Father; Blood, Tin, Straw; and The Unswept Room are available in Knopf paperback. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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