Description
This award-winning collection presents a powerful cycle of poems that moves from elegies for the dead, through the unsettling landscapes of childhood and family history, toward the vitality of love, marriage, children, and new life. Sharon Olds brings unflinching emotional honesty to private experience while widening her scope to encompass public grief, spiritual longing, memory, and the strange beauty of ordinary things. Painful, intimate, and vividly imagistic, these poems transform lived experience into art, revealing the bonds between generations and the fragile acts of tenderness that connect the dead and the living.
Available Editions
paperback
Knopf
Published Feb 12, 1984
96 pages
ISBN: 9780394715636
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Details
First Published
1984
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds.