Understanding Sharon Olds / Russell Brickey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brickey, Russell, author.

Series:

Understanding contemporary American literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Olds, Sharon--Criticism and interpretation.

Olds, Sharon.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 139 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Understanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women. In this first book dedicated entirely to the poetry of Sharon Olds, Russell Brickey examines how Olds approaches these difficult and complex topics with pathos and intimate, sometimes provocatively private, details through poetry that not all her critics appreciate. Olds has never shied away from difficult subject matter. Her first award-winning book, Satan Says, is a feminist exploration of gender politics and adolescent discovery. The Father comprises a book-length elegy about cancer. Stag's Leap, Olds's Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, is a surprisingly tender look at divorce in modern American culture. Extremely personal, her poems often deal with the victories and contradictions woman have faced in the United States during a time when the country has been involved in racial upheavals and overseas military conflicts. Investigating the challenges of being a wife and mother during the era of feminism, she is one of our most honest, most overt poets of female sexuality and its relationship to family life and its place within the history of humanity."-- Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Understanding Sharon Olds

Manifestos

The father poems

The mother poems

Love, good sex, bad sex, sex and marriage, divorce

War, suicide, freaks : the poet outside herself.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Brickey, Russell, author. Understanding Sharon Olds.

ISBN:

9781611177114

1611177111

OCLC:

949866235