Summary
Interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring.
Opening with a powerful and tender ‘Ode to the Hymen’, Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female pleasures, and touches along the way on parts of her own story which will be familiar from earlier works, each episode and memory now burnished by the wisdom and grace of looking back. In such poems as ‘Ode to My Sister’, ‘Ode of Br…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781911214069 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1911214063 |
| Author: | Sharon Olds |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2016 |
| Weight: | 136g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 14mm |
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Olds’s descriptive gift is like a fire hose of frankness…undeniably powerful.
Olds’s descriptive gift is like a fire hose of frankness…undeniably powerful. – Jeremy Noel-Tod * Sunday Times *Olds’s inspired new collection alerts us to taboos we barely think about ordinarily…These odes, because they illuminate what it is to live inside a body and survive its outrages, are useful – and beautiful too. – Kate Kellaway * Guardian *[An] inspired new collection… She writes…with a driven perkiness… Throughout, there is a bold sexiness that goes beyond sex, that borders on camp, fey or funny… Marvellous odes… Beautiful. – Kate Kellaway * Guardian Weekly *[It is] interspersed with acts of breathtaking linguistic daring. – Charlotte Mendelson * Observer, Book of the Year *Her new collection, Odes, is an exquisite follow up [to Stag’s Leap.] * Daily Telegraph *
About The Author
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco, educated at Stanford and Columbia universities, and has lived for numerous years in New York City. Her books have won many awards over the years. Her last collection, Stag’s Leap, won the T.S. Eliot Prize and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize.
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