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Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olds, Sharon
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Women poets, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
- Summary:
- From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S.Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a powerful collection from one of our most gifted and widely read poets--117 of her finest poems drawn from her seven published volumes.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- From Satan Says (1980)
- Indictment of Senior Officers
- The Sisters of Sexual Treasure
- Station
- Monarchs
- Infinite Bliss
- The Language of the Brag
- The Talk
- I Could Not Tell
- From The Dead and the Living (1984)
- Ideographs
- Photograph of the Girl
- Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921
- Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once
- Miscarriage
- My Father Snoring
- The Moment
- The Connoisseuse of Slugs
- New Mother
- Sex Without Love
- Ecstasy
- Exclusive
- Rite of Passage
- 35/10
- The Missing Boy
- Bestiary
- The One Girl at the Boys' Party
- From The Gold Cell (1987)
- Summer Solstice, New York City
- On the Subway
- The Food-Thief
- The Girl
- The Pope's Penis
- When
- I Go Back to May 1937
- Alcatraz
- Why My Mother Made Me
- After 37 Years My Mother Apologizes for My Childhood
- Cambridge Elegy
- Topography
- I Cannot Forget the Woman in the Mirror
- The Moment the Two Worlds Meet
- Little Things
- The Month of June: 13½
- Looking at Them Asleep
- From The Father (1992)
- The Glass
- His Stillness
- The Lifting
- The Race
- Wonder
- The Feelings
- His Ashes
- Beyond Harm
- The Underlife
- Natural History
- The Ferryer
- I Wanted to Be There When My Father Died
- Waste Sonata
- My Father Speaks to Me from the Dead
- From The Wellspring (1996)
- My Parents' Wedding Night, 1937
- Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942
- Killing My Sister's Fish
- Mrs. Krikorian
- First
- Adolescence
- May 1968
- Bathing the New Born
- 41, Alone, No Gerbil
- Physics
- My Son the Man
- First Formal
- High School Senior
- The Pediatrician Retires
- This Hour
- Full Summer
- Am and Am Not
- True Love
- From Blood, Tin, Straw (1999)
- The Promise
- Know-Nothing
- Dear Heart,
- 19.
- That Day
- After Punishment Was Done with Me
- What Is the Earth?
- Leaving the Island
- The Prepositions
- 1954
- Cool Breeze
- For and Against Knowledge
- The Spouses Waking Up in the Hotel Mirror
- You Kindly
- Where Will Love Go?
- The Protestor
- The Summer-Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb
- The Talkers
- First Thanksgiving
- The Native
- The Knowing
- From The Unswept Room (2002)
- Kindergarten Abecedarian
- Bible Study: 71 B.C.E.
- 5¢ a Peek
- Grey Girl
- Still Life in Landscape
- The Wedding Vow
- His Costume
- First Weeks
- The Clasp
- Diaphragm Aria
- The Window
- Fish Oil
- Wonder as Wander
- The Shyness
- April, New Hampshire
- The Untangling
- The Learner
- Heaven to Be
- The Tending
- Psalm
- The Unswept
- A Note About the Author.
- Notes:
- Preliminaries omitted.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-307-54760-4
- 1-299-01207-8
- OCLC:
- 843027020
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