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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

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 recasting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new perceptions and conceits.

Strike Sparks is a testament to this remarkable poet’s continuing and amazing growth.


From the Hardcover edition.
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Knopf
Release
September 28, 2004
ISBN
0375710760
ISBN 13
9780375710766

Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002

Sharon Olds
4.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
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 recasting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new perceptions and conceits.

Strike Sparks is a testament to this remarkable poet’s continuing and amazing growth.


From the Hardcover edition.
Language
English
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Knopf
Release
September 28, 2004
ISBN
0375710760
ISBN 13
9780375710766

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