Arias / Sharon Olds.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olds, Sharon, author.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xi, 194 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Summary:

"Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Meeting a Stranger

For You p. 3

Looking South at Lower Manhattan, Where the Towers Had Been p. 4

Meeting a Stranger p. 5

No Makeup p. 6

A Pair of Sonnets Against the Corporal Chastisement of Children p. 7

Poem to Etan Patz p. 8

Poem Which Talks Back to Me p. 10

Birds in Alcoves p. 12

8 Moons p. 13

My Father's Whiteness p. 14

State Evidence p. 15

Sweet Land of Liberty p. 16

White Woman in White Makeup p. 17

Apocalypse Approaching as I'm Aging p. 18

My Godlessness p. 19

Seas to Rise Forty Feet p. 20

Arias

Aria to Our Miscarried One, Age 50 Now p. 23

Aria Above Seattle p. 25

Anal Aria p. 26

Bay Area Aria p. 27

Bonnard Aria p. 28

Breaking Bad Aria p. 30

Cervix Aria p. 32

Calabash Aria p. 33

California Aria p. 34

Departure Gate Aria p. 35

Early Pastoral Aria p. 36

Fear of Motherhood Aria p. 37

Global Aria p. 39

Gliss Aria p. 40

Graduation Aria p. 41

Hyacinth Aria p. 42

Immigration Aria p. 43

Jockey Aria p. 44

Kunitzeiform Aria p. 45

Long-Playing Aria p. 47

Mortal Aria p. 49

Morning Aria, 6,000 Feet p. 51

Nevada City, California, Aria p. 52

Object Permanence Aria p. 54

Pasadena Aria p. 55

Pugilist Aria p. 57

Q Aria p. 58

Rasputin Aria p. 59

Sepia Aria p. 60

Silver Spoon Aria p. 61

Scansion Aria p. 62

Scrapbook Aria p. 63

Timothy Aria p. 64

Tailbone Aria p. 66

Uncombed Aria p. 67

Vermont Aria p. 68

Waist Aria p. 70

X Y Z Aria p. 71

Run Away Up

I Cannot Say I Did Not p. 75

Mourning Undone p. 76

First Breath p. 77

The Task of Naming Me p. 78

My First Two Weeks, p. 79

Coda, for Coda and Codette p. 81

201 Upper Terrace Snapshot p. 82

Theme Psalm p. 84

On Truth Serum, Seventy Years Ago, My Mother Chats p. 85

Run Away Up p. 87

The Green Duck p. 89

Dream of Mrs. Sly p. 90

I Think My Mother p. 91

How the Buttermilk Was Administered to the Child at the True Blue Cafeteria p. 93

I Do Not Know If It Is True, but I Think p. 94

How It Felt p. 95

Easter Morning, 1955 p. 96

Phobia of Red p. 97

Easter Morning, 1960 p. 98

Cold Tahoe Today p. 99

Never Saw p. 100

Sex with Love p. 102

My Father Happened on a Poem of Mine in a Magazine p. 103

Nemo me impune lacessit p. 104

The Enchantment p. 105

Like a Sonnet p. 106

Varicosonnet p. 107

From the Window of My Home-Town Hotel p. 108

My Poem Without Me in It p. 109

Where I Die p. 110

The New Knowing

What Thou Lovest Well p. 113

Remembering the First Time p. 114

After Divorce p. 115

Where Is It Now p. 116

The New Knowing p. 117

First Boyfriend After p. 118

Boyfriend Blues at 55 p. 119

Boyfriend Lament p. 120

Go p. 122

When My Fear That I Won't p. 123

Unexpected Flourishing p. 124

Elegies

1

Hospice-Bed Song p. 129

After Closing Up My Mother's House p. 130

The Relics p. 132

Dawn Song p. 135

Her Birthday as Ashes in Seawater p. 136

In the Temple Basement p. 138

Let the Night p. 139

As If My Mother p. 141

Blossom Trees p. 142

Holding to a Sea-Wall, Treading Salt Water p. 143

Where Is My Lady? p. 144

Where She Is Now p. 146

Double Elegy p. 147

My Parents' Ashes (New York City, October, 2001) p. 148

2

On the Bank of the Columbia River p. 153

Morphine Elegy p. 155

Last Day with My Father's Wife p. 156

3

Burial Day p. 161

Big Boy Blue p. 162

Landing in San Francisco on the Way to the Community of Writers (with a line from Tom Waits) p. 164

Song to Gabriel Hirsch p. 165

Tory Dent Elegy, Big Sur p. 166

Garlic Elegy p. 168

Sonnet for Joe of Nazareth p. 169

Morning Song p. 170

Stanley's Mouth p. 172

Animal Crackers p. 174

Song Before Dawn p. 175

Vigil p. 178

Sacred p. 180

First Child

The First New Human Animal p. 185

When You Were First Visible p. 186

First Child p. 188

Aria Conceived in Mexico p. 190.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Olds, Sharon, author. Arias

ISBN:

9780525656937

0525656936

9781524711603

1524711608

OCLC:

1083222461