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1	The Gold Cell more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002 more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist A powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets–117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes. Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry “pure fire in the hands” and cheered the “roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the ... see all copies from $8.28! new only from $10.75! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Father more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist In this painful collection of poems about caring for her aging father, Olds confronts their tragic relationship and attempts to overcome the afflictions of abuse and neglect. see all copies from $4.94! new only from $11.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	The Dead & the Living more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984, Olds's book of poetry considers her abusive past and her own children against a backdrop of international political violence. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.27! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Wellspring: Poems more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist Olds submerges readers in the wellspring of life as she evokes the wonder and the pain of sexual awakening, of giving birth, of watching one's children become adults, and of love in middle age. Always striking to the very heart of woman's experience and risking subjects seldom explored in poetry. Olds has found a large audience. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	What Love Comes to: New and Selected Poems more books like this by Ruth Stone, Sharon Olds (Foreword by) add to wishlist "We may pull down the shades in order to get on with things, but [Ruth] Stone pulls them up to remind us that the real stuff of life isn't about to disappear."-"The New York Times Book Review" "What Love Comes To" gathers nearly half a century of poems from a National Book Award-winning poet who, over the course of her career, has written in a ... see all copies from $16.59! new only from $17.19! \| SVS
7	Unswept Room more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist Sharon Olds's new collection evokes childhood--both her own and her children's--as well as marriage and the writing of poetry in her trademark style, incorporating unexpected rhythms, a sometimes startling use of language, and a good deal of wit. see all copies from $2.41! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist The themes that helped make Sharon Olds a leading poet of the body and of sex run through this, her sixth book. Spinning poems out of her frankest fantasies and her intensest obsessions, Olds touches frequently on sex, birth, and death. see all copies from $2.82! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	One Secret Thing more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. see all copies from $9.16! new only from $9.62! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Satan Says more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist Olds burst onto the poetry scene in 1980 with this powerfully candid debut about family relationships and the human body, winning the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award. see all copies from $3.56! new only from $6.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	Forty Lashes Less/ more books like this by Elmore Leonard add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99!
12 view cover	Selected Poems more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds's poetry 'pure fire in the hands', and cheered the 'roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss'. This rich selection - made by the author - exhibits those qualities in poem after poem, reflecting, moreover, an exciting ... see all copies from $12.78! new only from $20.05!
13 view cover	What Silence Equals: Poems more books like this by Tory Dent, Sharon Olds (Foreword by) add to wishlist The "brilliant and challenging" ("Library Journal") exploration of living with HIV by the winner of the 1999 James Laughlin Award. First published in 1993, this virtuosic collection defined writing about AIDS for a generation of poets. Chaotic and incantatory, it is a submersion into the railing consciousness of a young woman on the precipice of ... see all copies from $8.25! new only from $8.77!
14 view cover	Blood, Tin, Straw more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist Each section of this anthology suggests the progression of the making of a soul cleansed by blood, forged by fire, suffused by light. Unafraid to confront the ecstatic of the brutal side of a woman's experience, Olds transforms the subjects with an alchemist's art, using language that is casual and startling, fierce and transcendent. see all copies from $10.03! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The wellspring more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist This is a sequence of poems that reach into the wellspring of life. They transport the reader to the womb, to childhood, to sexual awakening, to the shock of birth, the wonder of parenthood and finally to the depth of love. see all copies from $5.00! signed copies \| first editions
16	The sign of Saturn : poems 1980-1987 more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist The poems collected in this work deal with sexuality, power and the idea of family: they tell stories of first sexual memories, of birth and of death in its many forms. The poet's previous published collections include "Satan Says", "The Dead and the Living" and "The Gold Cell". see all copies from $23.66!
17	Coming Back to Life by Sharon Olds, Anne Becker add to wishlist see all copies from $12.95! new only from $12.95!
18	The matter of this world : new and selected poems more books like this by Sharon Olds add to wishlist see all copies from $43.00! first editions

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