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
forbidden
it is forbidden to love where we are not loved
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.
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.