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	Amazon.ca: Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems: Books: Sharon Olds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In such previous collections as The Gold Cell and The Dead and the Living, Sharon Olds tends to draw her impetus from the sexual landscape.
		Sharon is a relative of mine, but before I knew that I knew her poetry.
		I am reminded of a statement made by Sharon Olds in a reading of hers that I attended where she was talked about her surprise when another poet revealed to her that the events in one of his poems never occurred.
	www.amazon.ca /Blood-Tin-Straw-Sharon-Olds/dp/0375407421 (1366 words)

	About Sharon Olds
		Olds describes the completion of her doctorate as a transitional moment in her life: standing on the steps of the library at Columbia University, she vowed to become a poet, even if it meant giving up everything she had learned.
		To her admirers, Olds is a poet of direct physicality and painful honesty, depicting aspects of family life and of personal relationships that have rarely been described in such intimate or graphic terms.
		But Olds insists on the beauty as well as the humor of her references to intimate body parts and activities—she celebrates the sensuous and cherishes the physical, even the parts usually left unmentioned, unrepresented.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/olds/about.htm (848 words)

	Introduction to Sharon Olds
		The motif of Olds’ speaker’s brutal relationships becomes much stronger as her works progress, perhaps this is Olds’ response to her father’s protracted death.
		Olds’ latest books are dominated by her father, indeed, The Father is based entirely on her attempt to cope with his death.
		Overall, Sharon Olds seems to have matured as she has written over the last sixteen years, and she will undoubtedly continue well into the future.
	www.poetsforum.com /papers/213_1.html (996 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Authors \| Sharon Olds
		Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University.
		Sharon Olds was the New York State Poet Laureate for 1998 to 2000.
		From poems that erupt out of history and childhood to those that embody the nurturing of a new generation of children and the transformative power of marital love, Sharon Olds takes risks, writing boldly of physical, emotional, and spiritual sensations that are seldom the stuff of poetry.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/authors/olds (185 words)

	Joe Gallegos : Lair of the Logophore : Library : Olds
		Olds has won the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for Satan Says (1980), the Lamont Poetry Selection and National Book Critics Circle Award for The Dead and the Living (1984), and the T. Eliot Prize for The Father (1992).
		(Olds, Wellspring) Sharon Olds has been the recipient of endowments from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and she has published widely in periodicals such as The New Yorker, Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly and others.
		Sharon Olds’ body of work is dominated by her relationships with her family, especially her father.
	members.cox.net /logophorelibrary/library/olds/library_olds.html (408 words)

	Sharon Olds And William Shakespeare
		Olds compares the lovers with “great runners.” (Sharon Olds, Line #18) In this simile, she implies that lovers are alone with their own pleasures.
		Olds uses the sexual imagery to address her subject as well as to convey a sense of intimacy.
		Olds is able to express her disgust by using imagery to portray her objection to casual sex.
	www.freeessays.cc /db/37/pms112.shtml (1214 words)

	Sharon Olds - Salon
		It's the end of the semester at New York University, where Olds has taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program for the last 12 years, and the atmosphere outside her small office is chaotic.
		Olds herself arrives a few minutes late, looking slightly harried, and apologizes profusely while pulling two paper cups of tea from a brown bag -- one for herself, one for a visitor.
		Olds' new book, which follows on the heels of "The Father" (1992), a harrowing series of poems about the death of the narrator's alcoholic father, is comprised largely of poems on somewhat more accessible themes -- family life, parenthood, romantic love.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/1996/07/01/interview/?pn=2 (529 words)

	Sharon Olds at Media Lab -- love her or hate her
		Olds herself said last night that she initially felt "poetry was something one should do absolutely by oneself" but that now she feels it is something to be shared.
		Thus Sharon Olds started with readings from one of her favorite poet's books, When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone -- since it was this book's birthday yesterday -- and then continued with readings from her unpublished collection, The Golden Cell (her third book), and Satan Says.
		Before analyzing her poetry, it must be said that Sharon Olds cannot read aloud (not necessarily to her shame, as T. Eliot himself was equally monotonous).
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V110/N43/olds.43a.html (871 words)

	'Blood, Tin, Straw' by Sharon Olds
		With “Satan Says,” published in 1980 by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Sharon Olds launched a relatively late-blooming poetic career -- she was 37 -- that hasn’t slowed down.
		Born in San Francisco, Olds was educated at Stanford and Columbia, where she endured to obtain her doctorate in literature while working to find her voice as a poet.
		Known for intimate poems about sexuality and family life, Olds is seen by many as the center of a back-to-the-body movement in poetry, especially by women.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20000514review491.asp (532 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Sharon Olds
		Born in 1942 in San Francisco, Olds was, in her own words, raised as a "hellfire Calvinist" in Berkeley, California.
		Here Olds also presents a larger section of poems devoted to a loving, mother's focus on the entire experience of her children, with special attention,once more, to the bodily.
		Sharon Olds was a visiting guest at the NYS Writers Institute on January 29, 1998.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/olds.html (1211 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog
		Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and was educated at Stanford and Columbia.
		From Sharon Olds—a stunning new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and counterpoint, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
		Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=22732 (472 words)

	Lannan Foundation - Sharon Olds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and Columbia universities.
		Olds teaches at New York University and helps run its writing workshop program at Goldwater Hospital, a public facility for the severely physically challenged.
		Olds served as the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000.
	www.lannan.org /lf/bios/detail/sharon-olds (90 words)

	Sharon Olds
		Sharon Olds prays in many of her poems.
		Although Olds' public readings move from being hilarious to harrowing, she understates her talent as a performer and her extraordinary sense of timing.
		Because Olds poems range from harrowing to hilarious, her readings can be more dynamic than audiences are prepared for.
	www.northcounty.com /arts/olds.htm (764 words)

	SHARON OLDS THE POSSESSIVE Term Papers - SHARON OLDS THE POSSESSIVE Research Papers from JunglePage
		An examination of the arguments for and against the raising of the Army conscription age from 18 to 21.
		This paper discusses Sharon Olds's poem, "Rites of Passage", which describes the way society conditions young girls and boys to behave in a manner befitting their gender.
		All SHARON OLDS THE POSSESSIVE papers are 100% original and written from scratch to your exact topic.
	www.junglepage.com /term_papers/sharon_olds_possessive.html (377 words)

	PoetryFoundation.org: Sharon Olds
		OLDS, Sharon (1942–), was raised in California, but has lived most of her adult life in New York City.
		Though critics may disagree about Olds, she is undeniably one of the most popular and accessible living American poets, and one of the few that has won a following among general readers.
		Olds’ work is also notable for its extremely candid descriptions of sex and childbirth, sometimes equating the two.
	www.poetryfoundation.org /archive/poet.html?id=5124 (461 words)

	Poet Sharon Olds to Read and Lecture During Visit to Ithaca College - Ithaca College News Release - Ithaca College ...
		Born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford and Columbia, Olds arrived as a poet somewhat late: her first collection, "Satan Says," was published in 1980, when she was 37.
		While her alcoholic and distant father played a role in many of Olds's earlier poems, here he is the central concern as a daughter chronicles her rage, grief, and bereavement that comes from caring for and ultimately mourning a father who didn't care for her.
		Olds has received a number of awards, including the Lamont Poetry Prize, Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award, and New York State Poet Award, given every two years by the New York State Writers Institute.
	www.ithaca.edu /media/release.php?id=801 (544 words)

	Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rites of passage, the cycle of life are treated with startling candor and beauty in the poetry of Sharon Olds.
		Olds is a poet for whom nothing is sacred...
		Olds notices the little things in the world, how maple syrup crystallizes when its left out, how delicate skin is when peeled back from a sunburn, how an elegant twist of twine holds shut a body bag.
	www.rambles.net /olds_goldcell.html (434 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wellspring: Poems: Books: Sharon Olds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The theme of Sharon Olds' fifth volume of poetry, The Wellspring is family and the sexual and sensual nature of the creation and sustenance of life--most often her own.
		Even when the ostensible subject of a poem is as public as a campus antiwar demonstration, as in "May 1968," the real topic is creation and procreation: "The mounted police moved, near us/while we sang...
		Olds' weak language and lines (her line breaks demonstrate no attention to craft, as if breaking a line on "the" or "a" makes the poem somehow more realistic, more sincere) constantly undermine her poems in this collection.
	www.amazon.ca /Wellspring-Poems-Sharon-Olds/dp/0679445927 (666 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - The Unswept Room - Sharon Olds - Product Details :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		These are poems that strike for the heart, as Sharon Olds captures our imagination with unexpected wordplay, sprung rhythms, and the disquieting revelations of ordinary life.
		Despite some readership's lack of comprehension for the genuis that is Sharon Olds, I am a believer in her as art and artist.
		I applaud Sharon Olds for not bowing to the literati's mandate that all poetry must rhyme, be a sonnet, a villanelle, pantoum.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0375709983-locale-us.html (549 words)

	A Note on Two Poems by Sharon Olds
		Sharon Olds has become one of the most prominent poets of her generation, and the recognition that she has received is largely deserved.
		And so it is not an unfair assumption that Olds' reputation has derived in some significant measure from the wider readership that has been afforded these poems, among others.
		Indeed, the underlying challenge presented by such personas is that the rejection of this rhetorical technique is made to amount to a rejection of the persona's torment, a rejection of the hard cost of insight.
	www.wright.edu /~martin.kich/BookBox/Olds.htm (842 words)

	Poet Sharon Olds to give public reading: 3/99
		Poet Sharon Olds will give a public reading of her work at 8 p.m.
		Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco.
		She is the state poet of New York and a recipient of many honors for her poetry, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second book, The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets for 1983.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1999/march31/olds331.html (240 words)

	Titanic Operas: Denise Levertov and Sharon Olds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The following is an edited transcript of Levertov and Olds responding to audience questions at a conference held on May 15, 1986, in honor of the centenary of Emily Dickinson's death.
		Sharon Olds: [answering a question about the relationship between poetry and politics] I'll give a personal answer.
		I think that anybody who's writing about parents and children is writing about power relationships, how people treat people, how the powerful treat the weak, how the very large treat the very small.
	www.emilydickinson.org /titanic/lev_olds.html (787 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Unswept Room: Livres en anglais: Sharon Olds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		From her debut Satan Says (1980) through Blood, Tin, Straw (1999), Olds has tackled child sexual abuse and grownup women's sexuality on a post-Freudian (some said post-feminist) canvas of love, hate, revenge.
		Olds returns here with a stronger, cleaner effort than she offered in her last collection, Blood, Tin, Straw.
		Although many of her subjects (family, love, sex) stay the same, her tone has shifted from an angry questioning of fate to a passionate acceptance of her own mortality and the experiences she has had.
	www.amazon.fr /Unswept-Room-Sharon-Olds/dp/0224069780 (402 words)

	berniE-zine Book Reviews: The Dead and the Living, poems by Sharon Olds
		displays great emotional depth and maturity as Olds explores the world of familial relationships. The structure of the collection provides a fluidity of progression from poem to poem, subject to subject. One reads through Olds' poetry as though compelled to turn each page.
		These are sensuous, inviting poems about attraction and sex, love and melancholy. Olds' poems for "The Children" depict the aching love of a mother for her child. The majority of the poems in this section capture the wonder of Olds as she witnesses the growth of these miracles to which she gave birth. From "35/10":
		Olds' poems are engaging, with a lyrical intensity you won't be able to shake. This is a wonderful collection to introduce you to a fine and important contemporary poet.
	www.homestead.com /rantsravesreviews/DeadAndLiving.html (420 words)

	dis.course: Sharon Olds' Letter to Laura Bush
		I was just sent a copy of this letter by the poet Sharon Olds, whom I have long admired and whose poems I have shared with students for many years, in response to an invitation from Laura Bush to talk about reading and writing at the White House.
		The letter is so eloquent and moving, so exquisitely precise and honest, that I wanted to post it immediately to share it with others who will understand her sentiments about the current administration, the war in Iraq, and the power of poetry.
		I've never read anything by Sharon Olds (although, I will need to go look for her poetry,now); and yet, in reading her letter I was completely struck by her words, and their power.
	mt.middlebury.edu /middblogs/ckoh/Diversity/009817.html (1119 words)

	Olds Pens Powerful Poems About Family
		The Dead and the Living was my first exposure to Sharon Olds, who won the 1984 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Poetry for this collection, which was the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983.
		Olds’ poems for The Children depict the aching love of a mother for her child.
		The majority of the poems in this section capture the wonder of Olds as she witnesses the growth of these miracles to which she gave birth.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/15461/80697 (390 words)

	Hugo Schwyzer: Sharon Olds
		Sharon Olds has a remarkable letter in the Nation this week.
		Olds is not simply responding to the invitation: she is constructing it in such a way as to make her refusal meaningful.
		Olds got more attention for her cause and drew more readers to her poetry with her letter than she could have at the festival.
	hugoboy.typepad.com /hugo_schwyzer/2005/09/for_those_eager.html (2025 words)

	Sharon Olds ★ Steven Barclay Agency
		Sharon Olds is the author of eight volumes of poetry.
		Her numerous honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first collection, Satan Says (1980); and the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Dead and the Living (1983).
		"Olds does not stand outside or above the people in her poems; she speaks out but does not condemn; she is part of the same emotive fabric as they are, and this identification lends her work much compassion."
	www.barclayagency.com /olds.html (265 words)

	Powell's Books - The Unswept Room: Poems by Sharon Olds
		From Sharon Olds: a dazzling new collection of poems that project a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and rhythm, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with humor.
		From poems that erupt out of the traumas of childhood and the painful disconnections between mother and daughter to the nurturing of the poet's own offspring and the transformative power of marital love, Sharon Olds takes risks, writing boldly of physical and emotional sensations seldom confronted in poetry.
		"Olds, fiery, penetrating, and unnerving, uses words as kindling, so that 'fear flamed into ecstasy,' anger is tempered into mercy, and redemption is found in a courageous openness to all of life."
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=61-0375414894-0 (403 words)

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