1. New York State Writers Institute - Sharon Olds Sharon Olds http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olds.html

Photo Credit: David Bartolomi Sharon Olds State Poet Sharon Olds is the author of seven volumes of poetry. Her latest work, The Wellspring (1996), shares with her previous work the use of raw language and startling images to convey truths about domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationships and the body. The reviewer for the New York Times hailed Olds's poetry for its vision: "Like Whitman, Ms. Olds sings the body in celebration of a power stronger than political oppression." Olds's second volume of poetry, The Dead and the Living (1984), won the Lamont Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Critics praised these poems for their power and their language as they unflinchingly explored sexual abuse and linked it with overt political oppression. A reviewer for the Iowa Review wrote: "What makes these poems gripping is not only their humanity, the recognizable and plausibly complex rendering of character and representative episode, but their languagedirect, down to earth, immersed in the essential implements and processes of daily living..." Sharon Olds is a native Californian who earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Olds is a founding chair of the Writing Program at Goldwater Hospital for the severely physically disabled. She is currently chair of New York University's Creative Writing Program.

2. Sharon Olds Sharon Olds (1942 ). About Sharon Olds On The Waiting Reviews of Blood, Tin, Straw An Excerpt from an Interview with Olds http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olds/olds.htm

Sharon Olds (1942- ) About Sharon Olds On "The Waiting" Reviews of Blood, Tin, Straw ... External Links Compiled and Prepared by Jacque Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

3. Sharon Olds - The Academy Of American Poets Sharon Olds The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. Sharon Olds. http://www.poets.org/awards/solds

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Add to a Notebook Sharon Olds Born in San Francisco in 1942, Sharon Olds studied at Stanford University and received a master's degree from Columbia University. Her numerous honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first collection, Satan Says (1980); and the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award for (1983). Her other books of poetry are Blood, Tin, Straw (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), The Gold Cell (1997) The Wellspring (1995), and The Father (1992) . Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker The Paris Review , and Ploughshares . Named New York State Poet in 1998, Olds teaches poetry workshops at New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program, along with a workshop at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. She lives in New York City. This bio was last updated on Feb 15, 2001.

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Book Reviews and Compare Prices for Olds Sharon Home Browse Books Bookstore List Top Selling Books ... Rate Book Stores Search: Title/Author/Keywords/ISBN Authors A-Z Olds Sharon Book Review and Price Comparison Pages: Top Selling Books for Olds Sharon The Wanderer AUTHOR: Sharon Creech, David Diaz (Illustrator) ISBN: 0064410323 Publish Date: March 2002 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book The Unswept Room AUTHOR: Olds, Sharon ISBN: 0375709983 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Darkness Before Dawn AUTHOR: Sharon Mills Draper, Michael Benabib ISBN: 0689851340 Publish Date: June 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Compare prices for this book The Dead and the Living AUTHOR: Olds, Sharon ISBN: 0394715632 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Bloomability AUTHOR: Sharon Creech ISBN: 006440823X Publish Date: August 1999 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Gordon Macquarrie Trilogy: Last Stories of the Old Hunters/More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters/Stories of the Old Duck Hunters AUTHOR: Gordon MacQuarrie, et al

5. Borzoi Reader | Authors | Sharon Olds Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book, Satan http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/olds/

The Unswept Room Blood, Tin, Straw The Wellspring The Father The Gold Cell The Dead and the Living Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living , was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Father was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in England. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helps run the N.Y.U. workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. Sharon Olds was the New York State Poet Laureate for 1998 to 2000. From Sharon Oldsa stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor. From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the transformative power of marital love, Sharon Olds takes risks, writing boldly of physical, emotional, and spiritual sensations that are seldom the stuff of poetry.

6. Sharon Olds SHARON OLDS ON PRAYING IN PUBLIC. ARTISTS ON THE CUTTING EDGE. by Brandon Cesmat. Sharon Olds prays in many of her poems. The lines http://www.northcounty.com/arts/olds.htm

SHARON OLDS ON PRAYING IN PUBLIC ARTISTS ON THE CUTTING EDGE by Brandon Cesmat Sharon Olds prays in many of her poems. The lines rise from the page like outcries, a quality that distinguishes Olds as one of the most accessible contemporary poets of our time. On April 24, Olds reads live at San Diego's Museum of Contemporary Art. When asked if she thought of her poems as prayers, she said, "When I was a kid, I would have thought prayer was for asking for help when one is afraid. When we're writing, I'm not sure that we think of the reader. It's more that we pray not to lie, to get it right, so that if we're writing about a tree, we get that tree and not a petrified log." The honesty in Olds writing process is evoked again when she reads to audiences. "Every poem is a prayer against loneliness. When I write, there are two people: the poem I'm writing and the poem that wants to be written. When I re-read what I've written, that makes three. If I read the poem to someone else that makes four. Poetry and prayer spell loneliness. "Although when we think of prayer in different religionsNative American, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, Presbyterian, Pentecostalthey may be more different than alike."

7. Sharon Olds Sharon Olds, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/auth108.html

Sharon Olds Sex Without Love Topography [home] Last updated: 2001.11.7.

8. Sharon Olds Sharon Olds. Home Pages General Resources No resource available. Olds21.htm 10/05/98. http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/o/olds21.htm

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9. Sharon Olds Sharon Olds Links. Poets in person Sharon Olds homepage. Summary and commentary on Olds Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once . http://www.harpercollege.edu/writ_ctr/olds.htm

Sharon Olds Links Poets in person: Sharon Olds homepage Summary and commentary on Olds' "Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once" Summary and commentary on Olds' "Late Poem to My Father" Summary and commentary on Olds' "Fate" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Pulling" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Dead Body" Summary and commentary on Olds' "Beyond Harm" Summary and commentary on Olds' "Waste Sonata" Summary and commentary on Olds' "That Moment" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Waiting" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Promise" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Girl" Summary and commentary on Olds' "High School Senior" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Pull" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Meal" Summary and commentary on Olds' "The Wellspring" Last Revised: 24 March 1997

10. [minstrels] The Connoisseuse Of Slugs -- Sharon Olds Reply to the Shepherd Sir Walter Raleigh Poem 1002, The Bait John Donne Poem 1003, The Connoisseuse of Slugs Sharon olds sharon Olds Poem 812, Sex http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1003.html

[1003] The Connoisseuse of Slugs Title : The Connoisseuse of Slugs Poet : Sharon Olds Date : 20 Feb 2002 When I was a connois... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq juan@ The Connoisseuse of Slugs When I was a connoisseuse of slugs I would part the ivy leaves, and look for the naked jelly of those gold bodies, translucent strangers glistening along the stones, slowly, their gelatinous bodies at my mercy. Made mostly of water, they would shrivel to nothing if they were sprinkled with salt, but I was not interested in that. What I liked was to draw aside the ivy, breathe the odor of the wall, and stand there in silence until the slug forgot I was there and sent its antennae up out of its head, the glimmering umber horns rising like telescopes, until finally the sensitive knobs would pop out the ends, delicate and intimate. Years later, when I first saw a naked man, I gasped with pleasure to see that quiet mystery reenacted, the slow elegant being coming out of hiding and gleaming in the dark air, eager and so trusting you could weep. Sharon Olds This is one of my favorite "love" poems. I like the mystery and sense of discovery, "delicate and intimate", with not a note of eroticism or lubriciousness. The emphasis lies in the sense of surprise and wonder at the end, on the delicious naivete of the narrative voice. And what a trope! It reminds me of the eloquent conceits of the Metaphysical poets, especially John Donne. (cf. "The Flea", which is another love poem that might itself be appropriate this week!). Juan. [Minstrels Links] Love poems:

11. Sharon Olds SHARON OLDS. Featured on August 17, 2002. She is just the right height. She doesn t wear makeup. I am honored to introduce her tonight SHARON OLDS. Search Now http://www.writersontheedge.org/olds.html

SHARON OLDS Featured on August 17, 2002 Our next reader is also a writer of memoir, but not in any conventional sense; you will never see her on Oprah giving you the real lowdown on her family and her relationships. She simply refuses to talk about these things except in her poetry, which has been both hailed and deplored as intimate and pornographic, although I believe erotic is the operative word. Another operative word is clarity. There is neither pretense nor obfuscation in her work. She does not fall into the trap that so many poets do, namely writing about life events in such a rush of personal imagery that the poems are incomprehensible to the rest of us. Her words and intent are both entertaining and accessible. Whether walking through a crowded airport or making love or observing children at her son's birthday, the narrative voice is deft and precise. I really can't say enough nice things about this writer. She seems to be everything a poet should be. Not surprisingly, she has one of the largest followings of any literary poet in America. Her eight volumes since 1980 sell. Her work has been translated into seven languages for international publication and appears in over one hundred anthologies. She teaches poetry workshops at New York University. She was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000. She is just the right height. She doesn't wear make-up. I am honored to introduce her tonight SHARON OLDS.

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13. Olds, Sharon New York University. 19932004. olds, sharon. On-Line Author Site http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webauthors/olds111-au-.ht

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Olds, Sharon On-Line Author Site Sex Female National Origin United States of America Era Late 20th Century Born Awards National Book Critics Circle Award, Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, Annotated Works Beyond Harm The Dead Body Fate The Girl ... The Wellspring

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ENTER YOUR TOPIC HERE: advertisement Purchase Books by Sharon Olds This site is owned and maintained by William Ames, a member of the Modern Language Association An Introduction to Sharon Olds Sharon Olds is a relatively modern poet. Born in 1942 in San Francisco, she attended Stanford and Columbia Universities. Little has been written about Olds, since she has only been published since 1980. She teaches at New York University and runs their workshop program for the Goldwater Hospital in New York, and she has enjoyed acclaim in her short career. Olds has won the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for Satan Says (1980), the Lamont Poetry Selection and National Book Critics Circle Award for The Dead and the Living (1984), and the T. S. Eliot Prize for The Father (1992). (Olds, Wellspring ) Sharon Olds has been the recipient of endowments from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and she has published widely in periodicals such as The New Yorker Poetry The Atlantic Monthly and others. (Olds

15. The Atlantic | July/August 2002 | A Week Later | Olds A Week Later. by sharon olds .. Hear sharon olds read this poem (in RealAudio) http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/olds/weeklater.htm

Home Current Issue Back Issues The Archive ... Subscriber Help Browse >> Fiction Food Foreign Affairs Language ... More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. A Week Later by Sharon Olds Hear Sharon Olds read this poem (in RealAudio A week later, I said to a friend: I don't think I could ever write about it. Maybe in a year I could write something. There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school. And in my dream someone was playing jacks, and in the air there was a huge, thrown, tilted jack on fire. And when I woke up, I found myself counting the days since I had last seen and hours. We had signed the papers and come down to the ground floor of the Chrysler Building, the intact beauty of its lobby around us like a king's tomb, on the ceiling the little painted plane, in the mural, flying. And it entered my strictured heart, this morning, slightly, shyly as if warily, untamed, a greater sense of the sweetness and plenty of his ongoing life, unknown to me, unseen by me

16. Salon: Sharon Olds An interview with olds from the archives of Salonmagazine.com. http://www.salonmagazine.com/weekly/interview960701.html

S H A R O N O L D S The poet talks about breathing, the Pope's penis, and the necessity of getting out of art's way By DWIGHT GARNER Illustration by Charlie Powell D omesticity, death, erotic love the stark simplicity of Sharon Olds' subjects, and of her plain-spoken language, can sometimes make her seem like the brooding Earth Mother of American poetry. ("I have learned to get pleasure," Olds wrote in her last book, "from speaking of pain.") In photographs she tends to look somewhat dark and remote, too; there's a sense of brewing drama. She seems a natural heir to such melancholy talents as Ann Sexton and Sylvia Plath. It's a happy surprise, then, to discover that the 54-year-old Olds is anything but withdrawn and more-serious-than-thou. In fact, she comes across as a bundle of nervous energy, slightly neurotic, a bit like an intellectual Julie Haggerty. It's the end of the semester at New York University, where Olds has taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program for the last 12 years, and the atmosphere outside her small office is chaotic. Olds herself arrives a few minutes late, looking slightly harried, and apologizes profusely while pulling two paper cups of tea from a brown bag one for herself, one for a visitor. It's hard to blame her for seeming a little breathless. In addition to her multiple duties at NYU, Olds runs the poetry workshop she founded in 1984 at New York's Goldwater Hospital for the severely disabled, and she reads at numerous speaking engagements. What's more, she claims to have such a backlog of poetry that when she does find the time to issue a new book such as "The Wellspring" (Knopf), published earlier this year it is generally made up of work written more than a decade earlier.

17. About Sharon Olds About sharon olds. Jacque Kahn. sharon olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was, in her own words, raised as a hellfire http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olds/about.htm

About Sharon Olds Jacque Kahn S haron Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was, in her own words, raised as a "hellfire Calvinist." After graduating from Stanford she moved east to earn a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University. Olds describes the completion of her doctorate as a transitional moment in her life: standing on the steps of the library at Columbia University, she vowed to become a poet, even if it meant giving up everything she had learned. In one respect, Olds’s imaginary sacrifice of her graduate education was an essential precondition for her artistic development. As a graduate student Olds had struggled to emulate the poets she studied. The vow she madeto write her own poetry, no matter how bad it might befreed her to develop her own voice. Olds has published eight volumes of poetry. Her first collection, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Satan Says responds to what Olds describes as some of her early poetic questions: "Is there anything that shouldn’t or can’t be written about in a poem? What has never been written about in a poem?" Startling readers with candid language and explicit imagery, Satan Says trangresses socially imposed silences. The poems explore intensely personal themes with unflinching physicality, enacting what Alicia Ostriker describes as an "erotics of family love and pain."(28).

18. Sharon Olds - The Academy Of American Poets sharon olds The Academy of American Poets presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, and links as part of its online poetry exhibits. Some pages also include RealAudio clips of the poet http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=209

19. Press Release 02/12/03 - The Academy Of American Poets 15. sharon olds Receives 68th Academy Fellowship. given Chancellor citation on awarding the 2002 Academy Fellowship to sharon olds The http://www.poets.org/academy/news/pr030212.cfm

poetry awards poetry month poetry exhibits poetry map ... about the academy Search Larger Type Find a Poet Find a Poem Listening Booth ... Press Releases FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Charles Flowers, Associate Director cflowers@poets.org Sharon Olds Receives 68th Academy Fellowship given in memory of James Ingram Merrill New York, February 12, 2003Liza Bennett, Chairman of The Academy of American Poets, announced today that the Chancellors of the Academy have named Sharon Olds the recipient of the 68th Academy fellowship The annual Academy fellowship, given in memory of the poet and late Academy Chancellor James Ingram Merrill , is awarded for "distinguished poetic achievement at mid-career." The fellowship carries a stipend of $35,000. Chancellor citation on awarding the 2002 Academy Fellowship to Sharon Olds: Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco in 1942, and was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the author of seven collections of poetry including: The Unswept Room (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002), which was nominated for the National Book Award; Blood, Tin, Straw

20. Olds, Sharon Late Poem To My Father Literature Annotations. olds, sharon. Late Poem to My Father This is one of a number of poems in which olds peels off the layers of abusive behavior passed down from http://endeavor.med.nyu.edu/lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/olds120-des-.

About the Database Editorial Board Annotators What's New ... MedHum Home 53rd Edition-April 2004 Art Annotations Artists Meet the Artist Viewing Room ... Art in Literature Literature Annotations Authors Meet the Author Listening Room ... Reading Room Performing Arts Film/Video Annotations Screening Room Theater Editors' Choices Choices Editor's Biosketch Indexes Book Order Form Search Options Word/Phrase (All) Word/Phrase (Lit) Keyword Annotator ... Special Author Asterisks indicate multimedia Comments/Inquiries Literature Annotations Olds, Sharon Late Poem to My Father Genre Poem Keywords Alcoholism Child Abuse Children Empathy ... Trauma Summary The narrator has experienced an epiphany in which she can understand objectively, even forgive, her father's abusive behavior toward her. She has seen in her mind's eye her father as a child, in the bleak household where "something was / not given to you, or something was / taken from you . . . "; she wishes that the love she feels for her father now could have nurtured him as a child and saved him from becoming an alcoholic adult who mistreated his family. Commentary This is one of a number of poems in which Olds peels off the layers of abusive behavior passed down from generation to generation (see for example "Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once"

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