Description
Arias is a searching, intensely intimate collection of poems that confronts death while affirming the startling persistence of life. Moving between family history, sexuality, motherhood, abuse, estrangement, and responsibility toward others, Sharon Olds explores the fragile boundaries between love and distance, inheritance and transformation. Arranged alphabetically yet resisting easy order, these free-verse “arias” turn private experience into acts of witness, questioning what becomes of the body, memory, desire, and grief. Bold, compassionate, and formally inventive, the collection finds in poetry a way to break silence, challenge generational patterns, and make suffering sing.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2019
233 pages
ISBN: 9781473574014
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Details
First Published
2019
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Arias by Sharon Olds.