The Gold Cell (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sharon Olds
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Book of poems
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Child rearing or parenting, Children, Family or family life, Memory, Parents and children, Racism, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Autobiography, Marriage, Emotions, Rape, Honesty, Fathers, Human behavior
The Poems
Sharon Olds is among the most highly regarded contemporary American poets. Her work has been described as “haunting” and “striking,” and the novelist Michael Ondaatje has said that it is “pure fire in the hands.” Like the poet’s earlier books Satan Says (1980) and The Dead and the Living (1984), Olds’s third collection, The Gold Cell, makes aspects of everyday life—news items, childhood, family, and sexuality—its subject matter. Olds tells her audiences at poetry readings that she did not publish her poetry until late in life...
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