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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100375710760

ISBN-139780375710766

eBay Product ID (ePID)30476303

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Book TitleStrike Sparks : Selected Poems, 1980-2002

Number of Pages208 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2004

TopicGeneral, American / General, Poetry

GenreLiterary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Collections

AuthorSharon Olds

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-044150

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal811/.54

Table Of ContentFrom Satan Says (1980) Indictment of Senior Officers The Sisters of Sexual Treasure Station Monarchs Infinite Bliss The Language of the Brag The Talk I Could Not Tell From The Dead and the Living (1984) Ideographs Photograph of the Girl Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once Miscarriage My Father Snoring The Moment The Connoisseuse of Slugs New Mother Sex Without Love Ecstasy Exclusive Rite of Passage 35â�„10 The Missing Boy Bestiary The One Girl at the Boys' Party From The Gold Cell (1987) Summer Solstice, New York City On the Subway The Food-Thief The Girl The Pope's Penis When I Go Back to May 1937 Alcatraz Why My Mother Made Me After 37 Years My Mother Apologizes for My Childhood Cambridge Elegy Topography I Cannot Forget the Woman in the Mirror The Moment the Two Worlds Meet Little Things The Month of June: 13Â½ Looking at Them Asleep From The Father (1992) The Glass His Stillness The Lifting The Race Wonder The Feelings His Ashes Beyond Harm The Underlife Natural History The Ferryer I Wanted to Be There When My Father Died Waste Sonata My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead From The Wellspring (1996) My Parents' Wedding Night, 1937 Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942 Killing My Sister's Fish Mrs. Krikorian First Adolescence May 1968 Bathing the New Born 41, Alone, No Gerbil Physics My Son the Man First Formal High School Senior The Pediatrician Retires This Hour Full Summer Am and Am Not True Love From Blood, Tin, Straw (1999) The Promise Know-Nothing Dear Heart, 19 That Day After Punishment Was Done with Me What Is the Earth? Leaving the Island The Prepositions 1954 Cool Breeze For and Against Knowledge The Spouses Waking Up in the Hotel Mirror You Kindly Where Will Love Go? The Protestor The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb The Talkers First Thanksgiving The Native The Knowing From The Unswept Room (2002) Kindergarten Abecedarian Bible Study: 71 B.C.E. 5Â¢ a Peek Grey Girl Still Life in Landscape The Wedding Vow His Costume First Weeks The Clasp Diaphragm Aria The Window Fish Oil Wonder as Wander The Shyness April, New Hampshire The Untangling The Learner Heaven to Be The Tending Psalm The Unswept

SynopsisFrom the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3565.L34A6 2004