Olds, Sharon
One Secret Thing
- ISBN 13:
- 9780224087841
- author:
- Olds, Sharon
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Jonathan Cape
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2009
- Pages:
- 96
- Dimensions:
- 20 x 13 x 1 centimetres (0.12 kg
- Genre:
- Poetry texts & anthologies
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in this powerful and moving collection. Intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with self-awareness and irony, the poems explore themes of home, humour, anger, compassion, joy and danger - both public and private. As the book unfolds, a portrait of the mother is revised, leading to a series of elegies that convey hard-won mourning. Charged throughout with Sharon Olds's characteristic passion, imagination and poetic power, these poems illuminate each other, creating a nuanced and deeply human exploration of family life. With its lyric energy and unflinching honesty, this book offers a unique perspective on the complexities of family relationships and the power of poetry to express them.
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