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The Wellspring: Poems - Hardcover

Buch 6 von 25: Cape Poetry

Olds, Sharon

 
9780679445920: The Wellspring: Poems
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0679445927 ISBN 13: 9780679445920
Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

A sequence of poems which follow the course of life, from the womb through childhood, sexual awakening, and the experiences of childbirth, parenthood, and adult love

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her poetry has won both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York.

Aus dem Klappentext

s dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood--and, finally, to the depths of adult love.

Always bold, musical, honest, these poems plunge us into the essence of experience. This is a highly charged, beautifully organized collection from one of the finest poets writing today.

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Bathing the New Born

I love with an almost fearful love
to remember the first baths I gave him--
our second child, our first son--
I laid the little torso along
my left forearm, nape of the neck
in the crook of my elbow, hips nearly as
small as a least tern's hips
against my wrist, thigh held loosely
in the loop of thumb and forefinger,
the sign that means exactly right. I'd soap him,
the long, violet, cold feet,
the scrotum wrinkled as a waved whelk shell
so new it was flexible yet, the chest,
the hands, the clavicles, the throat, the gummy
furze of the scalp. When I got him too soapy he'd
slide in my grip like an armful of buttered
noodles, but I'd hold him not too tight,
I felt that I was good for him,
I'd tell him about his wonderful body
and the wonderful soap, and he'd look up at me,
one week old, his eyes still wide
and apprehensive. I love that time
when you croon and croon to them, you can see
the calm slowly entering them, you can
sense it in your clasping hand,
the little spine relaxing against
the muscle of your forearm, you feel the fear
leaving their bodies, he lay in the blue
oval plastic baby tub and
looked at me in wonder and began to
move his silky limbs at will in the water.

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Verlag
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679445927
ISBN 13 
9780679445920
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
88
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