Sharon 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. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy—sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of /5(18). One Secret Thing By Sharon Olds pages; Knopf Sharon Olds has a remarkable feel for just how it is to be a body. In her new collection of poems, One Secret Thing (Knopf), no part of physical experience seems to escape her attention, whether she remembers childhood summers when I would dive into the lake —immediate, its cobalt reach and silence—. · ONE SECRET THING By Sharon Olds. Random House, pages, $ Sharon Olds is one of the true contemporary matriarchs of poetry (even the Hollywood renegade and poetry lover Sean Penn has used her words). Her new collection, One Secret Thing, is rich in image, brazen in voice and overly giving at welcomed times.4/5.
These songs of joy and danger -- public and private -- illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revision, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. One Secret Thing is charged throughout with Sharon Olds's characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power. Sharon Olds is a very visceral writer. She writes about the body, sometimes with incredibly personal insight. This has split readers, some finding her work too intense and perhaps even exploitative. I admire her courage and honesty. Most of all, the poetry is beautiful, poised and the sometimes shocking content makes you consider things in. Sharon Olds has found such dignity in past books - and some of her poems are oustanding. The danger is that such poetry may become self-referential. There can be narcissism in contemplating one's own nose pickings. She has not escaped this curse fully this time. Few artists have tackled successfully the theme of mental and physical decay.
Sharon 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. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy—sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. One Secret Thing is charged throughout with Sharon Olds’s characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power. The doctor on the phone was young, maybe on his first rotation in the emergency room. On the ancient boarding-school radio, in the attic hall, the announcer had given my boyfriend’s name as one of two. One Secret Thing By Sharon Olds pages; Knopf Sharon Olds has a remarkable feel for just how it is to be a body. In her new collection of poems, One Secret Thing (Knopf), no part of physical experience seems to escape her attention, whether she remembers childhood summers when I would dive into the lake —immediate, its cobalt reach and silence—.
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