Olds, Sharon
Olds, Sharon ( 1942 – ),American poet, born in San Francisco, educated at Stanford and Columbia universities. She now lives in New York. Her collections include Satan Says ( 1980 ), The Dead and the Living ( 1984 ) and The Gold Cell ( 1987 ) and a Selected Poems, The Sign of Saturn, was published in Britain in 1991 , where her reputation has since been firmly established. Olds is widely regarded as heir to the confessional tradition of Lowell , Plath , and Sexton . Her fluid, descriptive free verse forms are consistently rich in metaphor, and display her power to transform an often harsh reality through startling imagery into the kind of art that transcends the personal. The self-knowledge that can be drawn from the wrongs of the past and the hope contained for us in the future can be seen reflected in Olds's many studies of her parents and her children. The Father (...
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