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The Wellspring

Poems

Poems

By Sharon Olds

By Sharon Olds

By Sharon Olds

By Sharon Olds

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Category: Poetry

Category: Poetry

Paperback $18.00

Jan 30, 1996 | ISBN 9780679765608

Ebook $13.99

Dec 05, 2012 | ISBN 9780307561084

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    About The Wellspring

    Sharon Olds’s dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood–and, finally, to the depths of adult love.

    Always bold, musical, honest, these poems plunge us into the essence of experience. This is a highly charged, beautifully organized collection from one of the finest poets writing today.

    About The Wellspring

    Sharon Olds’s dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood–and, finally, to the depths of adult love.

    Always bold, musical, honest, these poems plunge us into the essence of experience. This is a highly charged, beautifully organized collection from one of the finest poets writing today.

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    About Sharon Olds

    SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the recipient of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement, as well as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the UK’s T. S…. More about Sharon Olds

    About Sharon Olds

    SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the recipient of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement, as well as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the UK’s T. S…. More about Sharon Olds

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Knopf
    Jan 30, 1996 | 112 Pages | 5-7/8 x 8-3/8 | ISBN 9780679765608

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Knopf
    Dec 05, 2012 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780307561084
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    "Sharon Olds’s poems are pure fire in the hands–risky, on the verge of falling, and in the end leaping up. I love the roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss."
    –Michael Ondaatje

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