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Odes

Odes
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Odes Hardback - 2016

by Olds, Sharon

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  • Title Odes
  • Author Olds, Sharon
  • Binding Hardback
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 128
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf
  • Publication date 2016-09
  • Bookseller's Inventory # JR4-00900
  • ISBN 9780451493620 / 0451493621
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.8 x 6.7 x 0.9 in (24.89 x 17.02 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects American poetry - 21st century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2015049910
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - An intimate collection of poems that "picks up where Stag's Leap left off, which is to say that it contains some of the best and most ingenious poems of her career." --The New York Times

Opening with the powerful and tender "Ode to the Hymen," Sharon Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures. The poems extend parts of her narrative as a daughter, mother, wife, lover, friend, and poet of conscience that will be familiar from earlier collections, each episode and memory burnished by the wisdom and grace and humor of looking back. In such poems as "Ode to My Sister," "Ode of Broken Loyalty," "Ode to My Whiteness," "Blow Job Ode," and "Ode to the Last Thirty-Eight Trees in New York City Visible from This Window," Olds treats us to an intimate examination that, like all her work, is universal, by turns searing and charming in its honesty. From the bodily joys and sorrows of childhood to the deaths of those dearest to us, Olds shapes the world in language that is startlingly fresh, profound in its conclusions, and life-giving for the reader.

About the author

SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and England's T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012 collection, Stag's Leap, she is the author of ten previous books of poetry and the winner of many other awards and honors, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first book, Satan Says (1980), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second, The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. The Father was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped to found the NYU outreach programs, among them the writing workshop for residents of Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. She lives in New York City.

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