Description
A powerful, intimate life story told in poems, this collection traces the speaker’s journey from the womb through childhood, sexual awakening, marriage, and the transformative experience of childbirth. Across four sections, Sharon Olds offers vivid, confessional snapshots of family and marital relationships, balancing tenderness, humor, shock, and emotional candor. The poems also turn toward grief and remembrance, honoring the dead while exploring the enduring bonds between parents, children, spouses, and generations. Unflinching yet deeply compassionate, the collection showcases Olds’s distinctive ability to transform private experience into resonant reflections on love, desire, vulnerability, and loss.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2010
ISBN: 9781409001942
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Details
First Published
1996
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Wellspring by Sharon Olds.