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Author Olds, Sharon.

Title Strike sparks : selected poems, 1980-2002 / Sharon Olds.

Publication Info. New York : Knopf, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  811 OLD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  811.5 OLDS    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description 181 pages ; 22 cm
Contents from Satan says (1980) -- from The dead and the living (1984) -- from The gold cell (1987) -- from The father (1992) -- from The wellspring (1996) -- from Blood, tin, straw (1999) -- from The unswept room (2002).
Summary 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."
Subject American poetry.
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
Other Form: Online version: Olds, Sharon. Strike sparks. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2004 (OCoLC)645875517
ISBN 140004278X
9781400042784
0375710760 (paper)
9780375710766 (paper)
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