Description
A powerful selection of 117 poems drawn from Sharon Olds’s first seven collections, *Strike Sparks* traces more than two decades of a bold and deeply intimate poetic imagination. Moving through the pain of childhood, adolescent desire, marriage, parenthood, aging, and loss, these poems transform the details of family and sexual life into explorations of love, vulnerability, memory, and human connection. Olds’s candid, emotionally charged voice is matched by her inventive rhythms, rough humor, tenderness, and startling imagery. Together, the poems reveal an artist continually revisiting familiar subjects with new insight and reaching beyond the personal toward a wider understanding of human experience.
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paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 2004
181 pages
ISBN: 140004278X
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Details
First Published
2004
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Strike Sparks by Sharon Olds.