Description
This powerful debut poetry collection traces a woman’s passage from daughterhood through adulthood, motherhood, and into an uncertain journey of self-discovery. With unflinching candor, the poems confront family trauma, parental relationships, sexuality, violence, memory, and the complicated process of reclaiming one’s own voice. Organized chronologically in four sections, the collection transforms intensely personal experience into a larger meditation on freedom, identity, and emotional survival. Sharon Olds’s language is spare, visceral, and fiercely controlled, giving the work an enduring rawness and imaginative force.
Available Editions
paperback
University of Pittsburgh Press
Published Jan 1, 1980
72 pages
ISBN: 9780822953142
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Details
First Published
1980
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Satan Says by Sharon Olds.