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Sharon Olds
Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning-by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called a poet for these times, a powerful woman who…
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Tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. In this telling - which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was…
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Michael Ondaatje has called Sharon Olds’s poetry ‘pure fire in the hands’, and cheered the ‘roughness and humour and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries…
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 –
Opening with a powerful and tender ‘Ode to the Hymen’, the author uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around…
Russell Brickey
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. Russell Brickey examines how Olds approaches these…
Olds submerges readers in the wellspring of life as she evokes the wonder and the pain of sexual awakening, of giving birth, of watching one’s children become adults, and of…
A new collection of intensely powerful poems by the New York State Poet Laureate and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Dead and the Living and The Wellspring.
From a greatly admired poet comes a dazzling new collection that projects a fresh spirit, a startling energy of language and rhythm, and a moving, elegiac tone shot through with…
Poems deal with the seasons, city life, an abandoned child, famine, rape, masculinity, religion, childhood, parents, love, and mortality.
Arguably America’s greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragililty and love of life.
‘At the time of…
A daughter chronicles the events of her father’s illness and death in a sequence of poems.
First published in 1980, the classic poetry of Sharon Olds’ Satan Says was introduced into college courses twenty years ago, and still maintains a wide usage today. Few first books…
Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet offers a new collection of poems that sing of a woman’s intimate life and political conscience.
Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.
Poems deal with death, childhood, marriage, love, parenthood, and family relationships.
Sharon Flynn
Journey into the world of wild fermented drinks and magical brews.
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Ruth Stone
A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. Ruth Stone is … a pre-eminent American poet. Harvard Review
Muriel Rukeyser,Sharon Olds
Muriel Rukeyser’s account of Ireland’s Puck Fair - the last existing pagan festival of the goat - captures this wild and lush experience and tradition. With a preface by Sharon…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Sharon Olds’s I Go Back to May 1937, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
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Joan Margarit
Joan Margarit is one of Spain’s major modern writers, known for his mastery of the Catalan language. In Love Is a Place, a translation of his three most recent collections…
It’s about relationships between the generations. It’s about how the seniors feel about aging, how the families feel about their parents and grandparents aging, and how all of them handle…
Sharon Pape
"Lyrical Press books are published by Kensington Publishing Corp."--Copyright page.
Sharon McGregor
Taylor Armstrong returns to her hometown to bury her Aunt Grace and soon finds herself the focus of unwanted attention. The town seems to have an unhealthy interest in whether…
Sharon Slater
Limerick, Ireland’s third most populous city, has a rich and vibrant history stretching back to its foundation by the Vikings. Historian Sharon Slater explores the development of the city, showing…
W[illam] B [From Old Catalog] Wickes
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Sharon Larsen Torgerson
Between 1900 and 1910, many Danish families who had transitioned through Ellis Island to Wisconsin, Iowa, and Nebraska boarded the immigrant cars for one more ride with their children, their…
Sharon Coan
Build fluency while acting out the story of Old King Cole and three silly animals who are fiddlers! Differentiated roles support readers of all levels, allowing teachers to get everyone…
Sharon Kinoshita
Kinoshita has produced a book of major importance. Her command of the Francophone Middle Ages should exert an important critical influence on the greater field of Middle English and should…
W[illiam] B [From Old Catalog] Wickes
Sharon L Dean
The characters in Six Old Women and Other Stories all keep secrets. They are tough and rugged New Englanders whose pasts survive only in memory. Sometimes that's a good thing.
Sharon M. Rowley (Author)
Pioneering examination of the Old English version of Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica and its reception in the middle ages, from a theoretically informed, multi-disciplinary perspective.
A description of An Old Fashioned Church For A New Fangled World. This book is about the historic church located on Boyd Street in Russell, KY. This old church has…
Sharon Pace Jeansonne
Investigates whether differences between the OG translation and the Hebrew/Aramaic parent text of Daniel 7–12 are due to intentional theological Tendenz, as has been predominantly proposed in the past, or…
Investigates whether differences between the OG translation and the Hebrew/Aramaic parent text of Daniel 7-12 are due to intentional theological Tendenz, as has been predominantly proposed in the past, or…
Sharon Prince
After being told by numerous psychics that he had walked with Jesus two thousand years ago, John Davis, a professional comedy performer decides to find a regression therapist to help…
George Mather, Sharon Mather
Why This Cookbook
Whether you are a professional cook, chef, or a serious-minded foodie, you will love this cookbook. If you work in a restaurant, own a bed and breakfast…
Sharon O'Bryan
Whatever happened to the old-fashioned children’s games and songs? Old favorites like Kick the Can, Fox and Geese, and Red Rover encouraged camaraderie, physical activity, coordination and social interaction. In…
Sharon Donohue
SPOILER ALERT: This book has been known to change lives. The Bible Clicks captures Scripture’s most compelling highlights and unpacks those gems in 365 episodes, chronologically arranged and cleverly illustrated…
Chris Mccully,Sharon Hilles
Using non-technical language, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of Old English Language and Literature for introductory students of English Language and Linguistics. In eight structured units…
