The Dead and the Living

The Dead and the Living - Paperback

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The Dead and the Living - Paperback

The Dead and the Living - Paperback

by Sharon Olds
$21.00
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Book Overview

From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead.

Larry Lewis say, "The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called 'beauty.'" It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers.

The Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.

Front Jacket

The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.
ISBN9780394715636
Author Sharon Olds
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 1984
LanguageENG- English
Pages80
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Sharon Olds

SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and Columbia universities. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Father was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and is one of the founders of NYU's writing workshops for residents of Goldwater Hospital, and for veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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