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kfan's review against another edition
4.0
Just starting to get into Sharon Olds. Everyone I know loves her, so I am excited to read more.
Things I liked here:
Unknown
If you know someone / who was there, that hour, at the burial, / could you tell them--I don’t know what you could tell them.
Sunday Night
Places we had been before, / no one would serve us, unless there was a young / unwarned woman, and I never warned her.
The Clasp
Her dark, / deeply open eyes took me / in, she knew me, in the shock of the moment / she learned me.
The Learner
And then They are things / I would not, have learned, if he, had lived, / but I cannot, be glad, he died
Past Future Imperfect
I’ll think of that day, and hear us, the pair / I thought was entering fresh outskirts / of play, I’ll see his tiredness / and loneliness, we had weeks left
Psalm
Do not / tell me this could end. Do not tell me.
Things I liked here:
Unknown
If you know someone / who was there, that hour, at the burial, / could you tell them--I don’t know what you could tell them.
Sunday Night
Places we had been before, / no one would serve us, unless there was a young / unwarned woman, and I never warned her.
The Clasp
Her dark, / deeply open eyes took me / in, she knew me, in the shock of the moment / she learned me.
The Learner
And then They are things / I would not, have learned, if he, had lived, / but I cannot, be glad, he died
Past Future Imperfect
I’ll think of that day, and hear us, the pair / I thought was entering fresh outskirts / of play, I’ll see his tiredness / and loneliness, we had weeks left
Psalm
Do not / tell me this could end. Do not tell me.
emmaremes's review against another edition
5.0
no hubo un solo poema que no me gustara. No hay otra palabra para describir a este libro y a Sharon Olds y su escritura que no sea absolutamente maravilloso. lo quiero releer mil veces más.
austindoherty's review against another edition
5.0
Olds, the poet laureate of cummy pubic hair, wrote a poem called 'Heaven to Be', which made me cry
abetterjulie's review
5.0
Masterful, powerful, and something I've never seen in poetry before.
I made the "mistake" of reading Stag's Leap first. That meant I came to this volume knowing what was to come for the narrator, and that meant a lot of tears. The ache these poems leave in my heart makes me want to keep reading them until it heals.
I made the "mistake" of reading Stag's Leap first. That meant I came to this volume knowing what was to come for the narrator, and that meant a lot of tears. The ache these poems leave in my heart makes me want to keep reading them until it heals.
avhollow's review
3.0
Well-connected collection that provides a poetic journey through a person's life and relationship with mother, partners, and children. The images are evocative throughout.
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