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Sharon Olds (natural 1942) is an American poet and author of seven volumes of poetry.
Life Sharon Olds was innate witharound 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a "hellfire Calvinist." When graduating from either Stanford University she moved east to earn a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. Olds teaches originative writing at New York University. Olds has been a recipient of numerous awards including a San Francisco Poetry Center Award, the Lamont Poetry Prize, The National Books Critics Circle Award, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Poetry Her book, A Wellspring (1996), shares by having her last operate a apply of raw language & startling images to convey truths just about house servant & political violence, sex, relationship, & a person. A reviewer for The Up to date York Days hailed Olds's poetry for its vision: "Like Whitman, Ms. Olds sings the body in celebration of a power stronger than political oppression."[http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olds.html] Her foremost collection, Satan Says (1980), received a maiden San Francisco Poetry Center Award. A verse form choose intensely household themes by using unintimidated animalism, enacting what Alicia Ostriker describes as an "erotics of family love and pain."(Twenty-eight). Olds’ 2nd volume, A Dead & a Dwelling, won a 1983 Lamont Poetry Prize & a National Book Critics Circle Award. Charted The Dead & a Residing, Olds published A Gold Cell, (1987) A Father, (1992), A Wellspring, (1996) & Blood, Tin, Straw (1999). A Father, the series of verse form just about the daughter’s loss of her father to cancer, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize & was the finalist for The National Book Critics’ Circle Award. In the words of Michael Ondaatje, her poems come "pure fire in the hands." Olds’ function is anthologized inside ended Centred collections, ranging from either literary/poetry text to favorite collections. Her poetry has been translated into septet languages for international publications. She was a Up to date York State Poet Laureate for 1998-2000.
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New York State Writers Institute - Sharon Olds Sharon Olds Sharon Olds An interview with Olds from the archives of Salonmagazine.com. |
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