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A review by brittbat
Satan Says by Sharon Olds
I did it! I achieved my goal of reading a poetry book each month in 2023! I'm so much more poetic now!
I think that I originally encountered this book on the attic shelf of my undergrad adviser's house, when I was housesitting over the summer. I was reminded that it existed recently by the random, strange tides of the internet.
This was a bit too much "my father's cock, my mother's cunt, their glistening sex" for my tastes at present. However, Sharon Olds writes about motherhood with admirable ferocity (I say, not now and unlikely ever to be a mother). I think that if I had read this back during that undergrad summer, when I was working on my poetry manuscript and obsessed with confessional poetry, and when I reveled in making boys in my workshops uncomfortable with how comfortable I was writing about menstrual blood, I would have loved it.
I think that I originally encountered this book on the attic shelf of my undergrad adviser's house, when I was housesitting over the summer. I was reminded that it existed recently by the random, strange tides of the internet.
This was a bit too much "my father's cock, my mother's cunt, their glistening sex" for my tastes at present. However, Sharon Olds writes about motherhood with admirable ferocity (I say, not now and unlikely ever to be a mother). I think that if I had read this back during that undergrad summer, when I was working on my poetry manuscript and obsessed with confessional poetry, and when I reveled in making boys in my workshops uncomfortable with how comfortable I was writing about menstrual blood, I would have loved it.