Description
In this intense and intimate collection, Sharon Olds explores the charged terrain of family life, motherhood, desire, aging, and mortality. Her poems move through moments of birth, tenderness, estrangement, and latent violence, revealing how the ordinary domestic world can hold both profound love and unsettling menace. Written in vivid, emotionally direct free verse, the collection challenges conventional ideas about women’s identities and relationships to their bodies, families, and inner lives. Together, these poems create a searching portrait of human vulnerability and the complicated bonds that shape us.
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paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2010
ISBN: 9781407053080
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Details
First Published
2002
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Unswept Room by Sharon Olds.