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A powerful distillation of the best work from one of America's most gifted and widely read poets, drawn from her seven published volumes.
Synopsis
Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands', and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This work exhibits those qualities in poems, reflecting an experimentation with rhythm and language.