- Published: 15 November 2009
- ISBN: 9780224090025
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 88
- RRP: $29.99
The Father
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- Published: 15 November 2009
- ISBN: 9780224090025
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 88
- RRP: $29.99
Sharon Olds's poems are pure fire in the hands - risky, on the verge of falling, and in the end leaping up. I love the roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss.
Michael Ondaatje
The elegy is one of the root-forms of poetry, but the fifty-two poems in Sharon Olds' The Father, radiating from a death, feel new. The death of the father - anticipated, witnessed, remembered - draws from Olds an extraordinary dry attentiveness... It is a wonderful book.
Adam Mars-Jones, Independent on Sunday