Olds, Sharon
Olds, Sharon( 1942– ),San Francisco-born poet, educated at Stanford, with graduate study at Columbia, has taught at various places. Her early volumes of poetry are Satan Says (1980), about the lives of women; The Dead and the Living (1984), a woman's view of her life and her family; The Gold Cell (1987), concerning a girl's social and erotic encounters; and The Father (1993), a daughter's vigil and grief for a father dying of cancer. More recent collections are The Wellspring (1996); Blood, Tin, Straw (1999); and The Unswept Room (2002), all of which continue her preoccupation with female experience, both physical and spiritual.
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