ISBN: 9781524711610 - balladz (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle). "At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: "she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me") and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence rhythm. Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her whiteness, seeing her privilege; seeing her mother (whom her readers will recognize) "flushed exalted at Punishment time"; seeing how we've spoiled the earth but carrying a stray indoor spider carefully back out to the garden. It is Olds's gift to us that in the richly detailed exposure of her sorrows she can still elegize songbirds, her true kin, and write that heaven comes here in life, not after it. …

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: New. 2022. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 128 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.38 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 128 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.38 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoningby the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called 'a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down' (San Francisco Chronicle).'At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror,' writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: 'she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me') and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence rhythm. Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her whiteness, seeing her privilege; seeing her mother (whom her readers will recognize) 'flushed exalted at Punishment time'; seeing how we've spoiled the earth but carrying a stray indoor spider carefully back out to the garden.It is Olds's gift to us that in the richly detailed exposure of her sorrows she can still elegize songbirds, her true kin, and write that heaven comes here in life, not after it. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. The winner of The Frost Medal, as well as both the Pulitzer Prize and England&rsquos T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for her 2012 collection, Stag&rsquos Le.