Sharon Olds Books

Sharon Olds's poetry is characterized by a robust sensuality and a delight in the physical, almost Whitmanesque in its embrace. She elevates the minutiae of a woman's everyday life to a valid subject for poetry, just as valid as the grand abstract themes that have preoccupied other poets. Her work often delves into the intimate details of human experience, exploring themes of the body, sexuality, family, and trauma with unflinching honesty. Olds transforms personal experience into universal resonance, captivating readers with her authentic voice and unshakeable perspective.

Stag's Leap
112 pages
4 hours of reading
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The collection presents a deeply emotional exploration of divorce, weaving together themes of love, loss, and the journey toward personal liberation. Through poignant verses, it captures the complexities of relationships, the weight of memories, and the bittersweet nature of newfound freedom. Each poem reflects the intertwining of sorrow and hope, offering a rich tapestry of experiences that resonate with anyone who has navigated the intricacies of love and separation.
The Dead and the Living
96 pages
4 hours of reading
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From 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.
Balladz
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Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life. Renowned for her poetry of searing honesty, sexual frankness and brave originality, Sharon Olds' new book emerges 'at the eleventh hour of the end of the world', from the time of plague, this time of loss, where she can look at the world and her life and tell us plainly 'love is the love of who we are, it is a form of knowing.'
Granta 172
Britain's most prestigious literary magazine brings you the very best new fiction, memoir, reportage, poetry, photography and art from around the world. Granta consistently publishes innovative and prize-winning writing in each quarterly issue, such as 'Rain' by Colin Barrett and 'The Room-Service Waiter' by Tom Crewe (both winners of the 2024 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction), as well as 'Theories of Care' by Sophie Mackintosh, which won the 2024 Pushcart Prize.
Papežův penis a jiné básně
114 pages
4 hours of reading
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První básnický výbor z díla významné americké básnířky, jejímž pracovním nástrojem je živý, metaforický jazyk i čtenářsky přístupná forma. Působivá poezie zaujme plastickou obrazností a otevřeností, s nimiž autorka tematizuje své problematické dětství, vztah k rodičům a k vlastním dětem, intimní tělesnost a sexualitu. Zřídlem, z nějž poezie pramení, je především autorčin osobní život. Podstatnou úlohu v její tvorbě hrají i motivy celospolečenské a obecně lidské, které se prolínají s „osobní poezií“, jak autorka sama tento princip své tvorby nazývá, a vystupují z ní v nových akcentech. Otevřenost a emotivnost jejích veršů na jedné straně vedla k vřelému čtenářskému přijetí, na druhé pak k odmítnutí pro údajnou neuměřenost a pornografičnost.

Stag's Leap

The Dead and the Living

Balladz

Granta 172

Papežův penis a jiné básně