Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
Sharon Oldsis an American poet. Olds has been the recipient of many awards including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980 She currently teaches creative writing at New York University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
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it is forbidden to love where we are not loved
daughter children memories
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.
daughter natural-talent getting-older
The older I get, the more I feel
dream memories ideas
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.
quitting said i-quit
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
mystery
A family is a mystery.
deceiving leaving-me
I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.
village might horror
The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.
grandma laughing tin
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh.
essays fine gives hyde lewis poets role society writers written
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.