Description
In this intimate and unflinching poetry collection, a daughter confronts her father’s decline and death from cancer, tracing the final stages of his life through hospital rooms, bedside vigils, funeral rituals, and memory. Sharon Olds brings a strikingly physical attention to the body, balancing anatomical detail with vivid metaphor, unexpected humor, and moments of tenderness. The poems explore mortality, family intimacy, grief, sexuality, and the complicated bonds between parent and child without retreating into sentimentality or solemn convention. Moving, visceral, and deeply humane, the collection transforms private loss into an expansive meditation on love, embodiment, and death.
Available Editions
paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 1996
79 pages
ISBN: 9780679740025
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Details
First Published
1992
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Father by Sharon Olds.