Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the
hands' and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and
tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader
through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by
the author - 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 fulfilment of marriage, the wonder of children - but
each re-casting penetrates ever more deeply, enriched by new
perceptions and conceits. A powerful distillation of the best work
from one of America's most gifted and widely read poets, drawn from
her seven published volumes, this is a testament to a remarkable
writer's depth, range and continuing development.
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