Sharon Olds

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The Father: PoemsPaperback, 21 April 1992

The Father: Poems
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Print Length
96 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Knopf Publishing Group
Date Published
21 Apr 1992
ISBN-10
0679740023
ISBN-13
9780679740025

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**A searing sequence of poems about a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).
**
The Father chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry.

The ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor--and without bitterness.

The deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Old's work find here their most powerful expression.

Product Details

Author:
Sharon Olds
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 April 1992
Dimensions:
21.34 x 14.94 x 0.71 cm
Genre:
Family
ISBN-10:
0679740023
ISBN-13:
9780679740025
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
96
Weight:
136.08 gm

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