61. Scs.student.virginia.edu/~3point7/so.html Omega Facultysharon olds. sharon olds is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Blood, Tin, Straw (1999), The Wellspring (1996), and The Gold Cell (1987). http://scs.student.virginia.edu/~3point7/so.html

62. Powell's Books - The Unswept Room By Sharon Olds ISBN 0375709983 Author olds, sharon Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Subject American Subject American General Edition Number 1st ed. Series Volume 10381 http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/partner?partner_id=27138&cgi=biblio&inkey=65-0375

63. Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell sharon olds, The Gold Cell (Knopf, 1987). The rites of passage, the cycle of life are treated with startling candor and beauty in the poetry of sharon olds. http://www.rambles.net/olds_goldcell.html

Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell (Knopf, 1987) The rites of passage, the cycle of life are treated with startling candor and beauty in the poetry of Sharon Olds. Her third book, published in 1987, is titled The Gold Cell Confessional in nature, her poetry is masterfully crafted. Her talents have won her much praise. Her poems reflect a strong sense of family. Relationships between parents and children figure prominently in her books. Embracing life, her poems trace its course, from childhood to first love to sex to miscarriage to birth to injury and, finally, death. Death and life are forever intertwined in her work. In her poems she honors the dead, public victims of crucifixion, suicide, torture, execution and abandonment. She also remembers the quiet, private deaths of relatives, friends and lovers. Olds is a poet for whom nothing is sacred ... or perhaps, for whom all is sacred. She treats her subjects with such honesty and power, that what might have seemed vulgar or cruel, becomes breathtakingly beautiful. A photograph of a starving girl, approaching puberty, moves her as does the moment of her own first menstruation. A scene in an office of sex-change operations exhibits loss as does the funeral ceremony of her children's gerbils. Child abuse evokes an intensity of hatred that is also found in chronicling political crimes.

64. [minstrels] Sex Without Love -- Sharon Olds 812 Sex Without Love. Title Sex Without Love. Poet sharon olds. Date 16 Jun 2001. sharon olds. Comments A poem that is not easily forgettable? http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/812.html

[812] Sex Without Love Title : Sex Without Love Poet : Sharon Olds Date : 16 Jun 2001 How do they do it, t... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq Sex Without Love How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, Gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other's bodies, faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth, whose mothers are going to give them away. How do they come to the come to the come to the God come to the still waters, and not love the one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin? These are the true religious, the purists, the pros, the ones who will not accept a false Messiah, love the priest instead of the God. They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, they are like great runners: they know they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio vascular healthjust factors, like the partner in the bed, and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe against its own best time. Sharon Olds [Comments] A poem that is not easily forgettable? I think Olds tries to answer a question that we have all asked at some point or the other in some form or the other. One of the nice things about the poem is that there is this nice balance between the view on the one hand that making love is the wonderful, sharing/caring type thing it is: ... How do they come to the come to the come to the God come to the still waters, and not love the one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin? ... On the other hand, there is this superb analogy with long distance running. And as a wannabe long distance runner and admirer of long distance running (in a vaguely "Chariots of Fire"-y sense!), that is a particularly powerful image, of the marathoner-hedonist. In the end though, there doesn't seem to be an answer the "coming to the still waters" bit is as weighty as the long distance runner bit. More questions! [Links] There is a page on the poet at

65. Poets Galway Kinnell And Sharon Olds To Read At The Library Of Congress On Thursday evening, March 28, poets Galway Kinnell and sharon olds will read from their work in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/1996/96-041.html

The Library of Congress The Library Today News All Library of Congress Pages Public Affairs Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC tel (202) 707-2905 fax (202) 707-9199 e-mail pao@loc.gov March 7, 1996 Contact: Craig D'Ooge (202) 707-9189 Poets Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds To Read at the Library of Congress On Thursday evening, March 28, poets Galway Kinnell and Sharon Olds will read from their work in the Montpelier Room on the sixth floor of the James Madison Memorial Building. The reading, presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, will begin at 6:45 p.m.; Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry Robert Hass will introduce them. Tickets are not required. Galway Kinnell, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award for his Selected Poems (1982), is the author of 12 collections of poetry, most recently Imperfect Thirst (1994). He is on the faculty of New York University, where he is Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing. He splits his time between New York City and Vermont.

66. Dan Schneider On Sharon Olds' Orifices 02. Jessica Schneider ‘So, Don, what do you think of sharon olds?’. olds, sharon. Blood, Tin, Straw. Oct. 1999. 112p. Knopf http://www.cosmoetica.com/D18-DES13.htm

On American Poetry Criticism; PART 9: Jessica Schneider: ‘ So, Don, what do you think of Sharon Olds? Don Moss: ‘ -from the Great Quotes of Don Moss , Volume 3, Quote # 1378 th Wynona had a big brown beaver, indeed! st book hit! So, now that I’ve listed the grievances; Chino- cue the wavy lines- it’s flashback time Time: 1998, summer Place: St. Paul Minnesota- a library basement Scene: Hungry Mind Review The Loft , well- fortuity, thy name is Patsy. The room was filled with about 30 older people there to learn of poetry. All but me were over 50. All but a handful were female. All but a handful were obese. A very obese woman of 70 or so was constantly smiling at me. I dared not think what was echoing through her cranial hollows! Patsy would cue each gathering to begin- then inanely declaim on some poet or subject. By now, those of you who know me- or have read some of my other prose writings- know about Patsy’s legendary moment of stolidity during a class reading of Allen Ginsberg’s humorous poem A Supermarket In California Ginsberg did not wanna ram Walt Whitman up the ass!

67. KENNETH AGUILLARD ATCHITY COLLECTION: FOLDER LISTING CONTINUED Box 8 Fold 53 olds, sharon DATE SPAN 05/15/1978 06/01/1978 DESCRIPTION 2 TLSs from sharon olds to KJA regarding Contemporary Quarterly. . http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/fl/f116}16.htm

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS HOME PAGE GO TO COLLECTION DETAIL GO TO INDEX PREVIOUS SEGMENT ... GO TO BOTTOM OF SEGMENT KENNETH AGUILLARD ATCHITY COLLECTION FOLDER LISTING Box: 8 Fold: 50 Odam, Joyce DATE SPAN: 01/13/1978 - 08/01/1978 DESCRIPTION: 2 TLSs from Joyce Odam to KJA, with 1 carbon from KJA to Odam and 1 copy of "Impulse Press" from Odam, all regarding writingand "CQ." Box: 8 Fold: 51 O'Donnell, John DATE SPAN: 11/22/1985 - 02/02/1987 DESCRIPTION: 2 copy letters from KJA at L/A House to John O'Donnell regarding "Shades of Love" and "Heartlines." Box: 8 Fold: 52 "Odyssey" DATE SPAN: 06/07/1983 - 03/30/1984 DESCRIPTION: 6 TLSs from various academic publishers regarding an academic paper by KJA on the Odyssey. Includes 1 TLS from Robert Lecker, 1 TLS from John Peradotto, 1 TLS from W. W. de Grummond, and 1 TLS from Steven M. Oberhelman. Box: 8 Fold: 53 Olds, Sharon DATE SPAN: 05/15/1978 - 06/01/1978 DESCRIPTION: 2 TLSs from Sharon Olds to KJA regarding "Contemporary Quarterly." Box: 8 Fold: 54 Oliver, Kenneth

68. Seattle Arts & Lectures -Sharon Olds Biography Born in San Francisco in 1942, sharon olds was eduacted at Stanford University and Columbia University, where she earned her doctorate in 1972. http://www.lectures.org/olds.html

Poet Benaroya Hall, May 15, 2001 Biography Selected Works Links Biography Satan Says, was published in 1980, when she was thirty-seven. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry, and other magazines. Since 1990, she has been associate professor 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. She lives in New York City. Sharon Olds has been the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second book, The Dead and the Living , was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Father (1992) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in England. Selected Works Satan Says (1980) The Dead and the Living (1983) The Gold Cell (1987) The Father (1992) The Wellspring (1995) Blood, Tin, Straw (1999)

69. Poetry Archives @ EMule.com sharon olds. thanks sharon olds, The One Girl at the Boys Party (1983) When I take my girl to the swimming party I set her down among the boys. http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?f=6&i=7071&t=7071

70. Sharon Olds And Quincy Troupe Poem THE CLASP. sharon olds is the author of six collections of poetry. sharon olds was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998–2000. http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/00_01/mustro.html

Saturday, November 18, 2000 548 West 22nd Street, NYC, 4:00pm (Please note: Carol Muske, originally scheduled with Quincy Troupe, will read at a later date.) Poem: THE CLASP Sharon Olds is the author of six collections of poetry. Her first book of poems, Satan Says , received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second book, 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. Her other collections include The Gold Cell, The Wellspring, and, most recently, Blood, Tin, Straw . She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helps run the New York University workshop program for the severely physically challenged at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. Sharon Olds was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998–2000. Poem: One Summer View In Port Townsend, Washington Quincy Troupe is the author of twelve books, including six volumes of poetry, the latest of which is Choruses (Coffee House Press, 1999). Mr. Troupe has received two American Book Awards (in 1980 for poetry for

71. Ploughshares, The Literary Journal Boston, MA 02116 Donate to Ploughshares. Authors Articles sharon olds This bio was last updated on 07/31/2001. sharon olds. sharon http://www.pshares.org/crawler/a1144.html

72. Fooling With Words With Bill Moyers: Teacher's Guide sharon olds There is something exciting to me about writing about something that I haven t written about before and that maybe I haven t read a lot of poems http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/t_txtolds.html

Amiri Baraka Coleman Barks Lorna Dee Cervantes Lucille Clifton ... Paul Muldoon Sharon Olds Marge Piercy Robert Pinsky If you are interested in obtaining printed copies, please write to: Robert A. Miller, Educational Publishing Thirteen/WNET 450 West 33rd Street New York, NY 10001 SHARON OLDS "There is something exciting to me about writing about something that I haven't written about before and that maybe I haven't read a lot of poems about. . . . When I grew up there were so few poems about women from a woman's point of view, so few poems about children from a child's point of view." Born in San Francisco in 1942, Sharon Olds was raised as a "hellfire Calvinist" in Berkeley, California. Her work has been praised for its courage, emotional power, and extraordinary physicality. She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and is the State Poet of New York from 1998-2000. "The Clasp" She was four, he was one, it was raining, we had colds, we had been in the apartment two weeks straight, I grabbed her to keep her from shoving him over on his face, again, and when I had her wrist

73. Www.zoooom.it Translate this page STORIA DI UN PESCE di sharon olds. PIAZZA VITTORIO di Sara Ventroni. GLI ALIENI di Charles Bukowski. STORIA DI UN PESCE di sharon olds. http://www.zoooom.it/rubriche/giornalino.php?id=17&tipo=POESIA

74. Unswept Room By Sharon Olds Reviewed By Michael Meyerhofer Unswept Room by sharon olds Reviewed by Michael Meyerhofer. I recently had the opportunity to read sharon olds newest book of poetry http://www.circlemagazine.com/issuetwentynine/unswept.html

Unswept Room by Sharon Olds Reviewed by Michael Meyerhofer I recently had the opportunity to read Sharon Olds' newest book of poetry, The Unswept Room, available from Random House, Inc. With a unique flare for descriptions of honest, beautiful, and often disturbing clarity, Sharon Olds once again wades into her own psyche and the world around her-although more often, the former-to share with us some of the most shocking, vivid, and accessible poetry written today. As with previous books, most of the poems revolve around her childhood interaction with her parents-in particular, her abusive father. Although the subject matter may be old, poems like "Sunday Night" (where she describes her father forcing his hands into the "sacred tented woods" of waitresses skirts) and "His Costume" (where she recalls his strange affection and uncanny skill for dressing in women's clothing) seem as fresh as they are brilliant. One gets the feel, as they move through this book, that Sharon Olds is wrestling with the demons of her childhood, trying to expunge them so that she can finally see her family-and herself-with soft eyes. What I like most about Olds' newest poems is their straightforward approach to poetry and language, their preservation of the essence of artistic expression without pretentious attempts to muddle themselves with needless ambiguities, as is too often the case in modern poetry. Sharon Olds-like Billy Collins, although they're very different writers-represent what I think is a new order of modern poets seeking to make poetry less an exercise in intellectual swordplay, and more a reflection of the deepest, most shocking (or humorous) aspects of the human condition. Sometimes this is taken too far, and a few of the poems seem much less polished-even a bit sloppy-but overall, The Unswept Room is a strong collection, and well worth the read.

75. Fertile Heart Poetry Sharon Olds The Unborn By sharon olds. Sometimes I can almost see, around our heads, Like gnats around a streetlight in summer, The children we could have, The glimmer of http://www.fertileheart.com/poetry/p.po.olds.html

The Unborn By Sharon Olds Sometimes I can almost see, around our heads, Like gnats around a streetlight in summer, The children we could have, The glimmer of them. Sometimes I feel them waiting, dozing In some antechamber - servants, half- Listening for the bell. Sometimes I see them lying like love letters In the Dead Letter Office And sometimes, like tonight, by some black Second sight I can feel just one of them Standing on the edge of a cliff by the sea In the dark, stretching its arms out Desperately to me. From the Satan Says collection Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press Other poems: What Do I Do My Lord?, by Julia Indichova Psalm #4, by Jason Shulman Psalm #10, by Jason Shulman The Unborn, by Sharon Olds ... Looking at My Daughter's Baby Picture, by Julia Indichova The alternative treatments discussed on this website are not intended to replace the advice of a health professional. They are shared with the understanding that each individual accepts full responsibiliy for her/his own well being. Updated Fertile Heart

76. The New York Review Of Books: Sharon Olds Bibliography of books and articles by sharon olds, from The New York Review of Books. The New York Review of Books. sharon olds. From the Archives. http://www.nybooks.com/authors/3071

@import "/css/default.css"; Home Your account Current issue Archives ... NYR Books Sharon Olds From the Archives October 24, 1985 THE CASE OF DAUD HAIDER Home Your account Current issue ... NYR Books with any questions about this site. The cover date of the next issue of The New York Review of Books will be June 24, 2004.

77. Sex Without Love Sex Without Love by sharon olds 1984 How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?Beautiful as dancers, gliding over each http://students.washington.edu/godess/propoetry/sex_without_love.htm

78. SUNY Ulster - Campus Life April 28, 1994 ~ sharon olds. Reproduced below is the original press release announcing sharon olds selection as the first guest poet of the Poetry Forum. http://www.sunyulster.edu/people/Olds.asp

The Poetry Forum April 28, 1994 ~ Sharon Olds Reproduced below is the original press release announcing Sharon Olds' selection as the first guest poet of the Poetry Forum PRESS RELEASE Apr. 4, 1994... Olds Feature of Poetry Forum at Ulster College... Nationally-acclaimed poet Sharon Olds will preside over a day-long program featuring her work and that of local poets on Thursday, April 28, 1994 on the Stone Ridge campus. The program features a 7:30 p.m. reading by Olds of her work, known for its descriptive candor, toughness, humor and power to move. all of the events are free, open to the public and held in the Student Lounge. Olds' poetry has a wide appeal because she uses very direct language and offers listeners a depth of emotional honesty that few poets are able to match. Even people not used to listening to poetry will be struck by her courage to face the difficult moments in life and her ability to convey her experience with astonishing force. At the ulster campus, Olds will begin the day at 10 a.m. with a one-hour seeion discussing poetry, and answering audience members' questions. she will be joined at 1 p.m. by local poets

79. Sharon Olds reviewers Links Email NHI Review Web design by Gerald England This page last updated 6th July 2003. sharon olds BLOOD, TIN, STRAW. http://www.nhi.clara.net/bs0263.htm

NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW ON-LINE SHARON OLDS: BLOOD, TIN, STRAW Jonathan Cape Random House 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London UK ISBN 224 06089 9 visit Random House's Website Anthologies. Books. Audio. ... Email NHI Review Web design by Gerald England This page last updated: 6th July 2003. SHARON OLDS: BLOOD, TIN, STRAW - blood, tin, straw - what they were made of was to be used to kill them These lines come from the poem CULTURE AND RELIGION where a child remembers two influential films, making an astonishing link between the Crucifixion and the Wizard of Oz Olds has the ability to speak metaphorically yet clearly about experience that could be interpreted as highly personal. But she refuses the Romantic myth of the autobiographical poet as she stated on BBC Radio 3 on 7 July 2000. I leave a lot out, most of my poems you never see, if I find them too stuck or whining. Unless the I works in some way for the reader, unless the reader can slip into that I , have some experience through that I , then the poem is not worthwhile, it's more like a diary entry in rhyme In this, her sixth book, Olds writes with even greater lyrical punch. Her previous poems were remarkably honest in their portrayal of the physical reactions of women. Here she writes about her father with more understanding:

80. A Note On Two Poems By Sharon Olds A Note on Two Poems by sharon olds. This article appeared originally in Notes on Contemporary Literature.. sharon olds has become http://www.wright.edu/~martin.kich/BookBox/Olds.htm

A Note on Two Poems by Sharon Olds [This article appeared originally in Notes on Contemporary Literature Sharon Olds has become one of the most prominent poets of her generation, and the recognition that she has received is largely deserved. She has consistently given a direct but lyrical expression to the grotesque aspects of mundane circumstance, and she has consistently found language that seems to surprise itself with the oblique truths that it reveals. These qualities are, however, sometimes sacrificed to expedient effects, and this expediency is nowhere more apparent than in "The Sisters of Sexual Treasure" and "The End." It is, perhaps, unfair to focus on any two poems out of the large body of work that Olds has produced. Yet, both of these poems have been prominently anthologized: "The Sisters of Sexual Treasure" in The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry [Ed. by Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick. Pittsburgh, PA/London: U of Pittsburgh P, 1993. 198] and "The End" in The Norton Introduction to Poetry [Hunter, J. Paul. 3rd ed. New York: Norton, 1986. 91]. And so it is not an unfair assumption that Olds' reputation has derived in some significant measure from the wider readership that has been afforded these poems, among others.

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