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Olds, Sharon
Olds, Sharon (1942– ), American poet, born in San Francisco, educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, now resident in New York. Her earlier collections include Satan Says (1980), The Dead and the Living (1984), and The Gold Cell (1987); a Selected Poems, The Sign of Saturn, was published in Britain in 1991, where her reputation has since been firmly established. Olds is widely regarded as heir to the confessional tradition of R. Lowell, Plath, and Sexton. Her fluid, descriptive free- verse forms are consistently rich in metaphor, and display her power to transform an often harsh reality through startling imagery into the kind of art that transcends the personal. Olds's many studies of her parents and her children include The Father (1992), perhaps her finest work to date, which is the poetic narrative of her father's illness and death from cancer. The Wellspring (1996) explores themes of sex, love, and mortality, and continues the poet's celebratory expression of life and the redemptive power of love.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Olds, Sharon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Olds, Sharon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-OldsSharon.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Olds, Sharon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-OldsSharon.html |
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Olds, Sharon
Olds, Sharon (1942– ),San Francisco‐born poet, educated at Stanford, with graduate study at Columbia, has taught at various places. Her early volumes of poetry are Satan Says (1980), about the lives of women; The Dead and the Living (1984), a woman's view of her life and her family; The Gold Cell (1987), concerning a girl's social and erotic encounters; and The Father (1993), a daughter's vigil and grief for a father dying of cancer. More recent collections are The Wellspring (1996); Blood, Tin, Straw (1999); and The Unswept Room (2002), all of which continue her preoccupation with female experience, both physical and spiritual.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Olds, Sharon." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 10 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Olds, Sharon." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (February 10, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-OldsSharon.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Olds, Sharon." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved February 10, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-OldsSharon.html |
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