Odes von Olds, Sharon

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco, educated at Stanford and Columbia universities, and has lived for many years in New York City. Her books have won many awards over the years. Her collection Stag¿s Leap won the T.S. Eliot Prize and...

Trade paperback. A new collection from the American poet, laying bare her divorce. von Olds, Sharon

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...

"In "Satan Says," Sharon Olds convincingly, and with astonishing vigor, presents a world which, if not always hostile, is never clear about which face, it will show her." "--American Book Review" von Olds, Sharon

Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning-by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle)."At the time of have-not, I look...

The Father: Poems von Olds, Sharon

The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. von Olds, Sharon