'Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.'
Charlotte Mendelson, Observer Book of the Year Opening with a
powerful and tender 'Ode to the Hymen', Sharon Olds uses this
age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a
collection that is centred around the female body and female
pleasures, and touches along the way on parts of her own story
which will be familiar from earlier works, each episode and memory
now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such
poems as 'Ode to My Sister', 'Ode of Broken Loyalty', 'Ode to My
Whiteness', 'Blow Job Ode', 'Ode to the Last 38 Trees in New York
City Visible from This Window', Olds treats us to an intimate
self-examination that, like all her work, is universal and by turns
searing and charming in its honesty. From the early bodily joys and
sorrows of her girlhood to the recent deaths of those dearest to
her - the 'Sheffield Mountain Ode' for Galway Kinnell is one of the
most stunning pieces here - Olds shapes her world in language that
is startlingly fresh, profound in its conclusions, and life-giving
for the reader.
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