Balladz - Sharon Olds

Arguably Americas Greatest Living Poet, Sharon Olds Enters Her Eightieth Year With A Book For Our Times: A Book Of Fear, Fragility And Love Of Life National Book Award Finalist An Observer Book Of The Year 2023 'sharon Olds Is A Force Of Nature. She Proves Triumphantly Evergreen' Observer 'at The Time Of Have-not, I Look At Myself In This Mirror,' Writes Olds In This Self-scouring, Exhilarating Collection, Which Opens With A Section Of Quarantine Poems, Followed By Her 'amherst Balladz', Honouring Emily Dickinson - 'she Was Our Girl - Our Woman - Man Enough - For Me' - And Leads To Celebrations Of Lost Friends And Lovers: Her Childhood, Young Womanhood, And Old Age All Mixed Up Together. She Examines Her White Privilege, Sees Her Mother 'flushed And Exalted At Punishment Time', Celebrates The Human Body, Even In Ageing, And Looks With Wonder At The Natural World And How Weve Spoiled It.