Balladz - 'The most accessible poet of her generation' Telegraph
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| Verlag | Random House UK |
| Auflage | 2023 |
| Seiten | 176 |
| Format | 13,4 x 19,8 x 1,4 cm |
| Gewicht | 189 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781787334229 |
| Bestell-Nr | 78733422UA |
Arguably America's 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 we've spoiled it.
Renowned for her poetry of searing hone sty, sexual frankness and brave originality, Sharon Olds' new book emerges 'at the eleventh hour of the end of the world', from the time of plague, this time of loss, where she can look at the world and her life and tell us plainly 'love is the love of who we are, it is a form of knowing.'
Rezension:
In Balladz, Sharon Olds proves triumphantly evergreen: a woman who still steps across prudishly conventional lines as playfully as a child absorbed in French skipping... Remarkable. Observer, _Poetry Book of the Month_