The Dead and the Living
Poems
From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead.
Larry Lewis say, “The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called ‘beauty.’” It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers.
The Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.
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February 12, 1984SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the recipient of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement, as well as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the UK’s T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012 collection, Stag’s Leap. She is the author of twelve previous books of poetry and the recipient of many other awards and honors, including 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. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped…
Balladz
Sharon Olds
Arias
Sharon Olds
Odes
Sharon Olds
Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds
One Secret Thing
Sharon OldsWhat Silence Equals
Tory Dent;Sharon Olds
Strike Sparks
Sharon Olds
The Unswept Room
Sharon Olds
Blood, Tin, Straw
Sharon Olds
The Wellspring
Sharon Olds
The Father
Sharon Olds
Gold Cell
Sharon Olds