![]() We’ll have a profile of Olds on the NewsHour soon. She teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. Sharon Olds is the author of several books of poetry, including “The Dead and the Living,” winner of the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award “The Unswept Room,” a finalist for the 2002 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and “Stag’s Leap,” which was published this year. I knew there was no god of love, there were onlyĪnd the back of his hand rubbed them, a second, Had failed, well I could just suffer for that-Īnd on my glasses the salt water pooled, almost That it hardly mattered to me now, the pain, The other, in the distance, the tidal wastes,īut I thought that I could say it, if I said itįoothills, mountains-the slope, for both, Her other collect Born in San Francisco on November 19, 1942, Sharon Olds earned a B.A. ![]() ![]() One side of the highway, the waterless hills. Olds's following collection, The Dead & the Living (1983), received the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1983 and the National Book Critics Circle Award. ![]()
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