A review by kweekwegg
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002 by Sharon Olds

4.0

This has a sampling of each one of Olds' books, which I now suspect is not the best way to introduce oneself to a poet. I fell in love with several poems along the way, particular in the first few books of the collection, and I managed to frustrate my conception of Olds as hard and overly stark (which was the fault of only reading her few anthologized poems); but I eventually grew bored and frustrated with the same voice, I think because I wasn't experiencing them in any other context. I plan on picking up one of the individual books in the future, hopefully to get a more digestible experience.