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2. Literary Encyclopedia: Sharon Olds Sharon Olds is a highly regarded American poet renowned for the emotional potency, stark realism and stylistic accessibility of her writing, which owes much http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3410

3. New York State Writers Institute - Sharon Olds Sharon Olds is the author of seven volumes of poetry. Her latest work, The Wellspring (1996), shares with her previous work the use of raw language and http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olds.html

Photo Credit: David Bartolomi Sharon Olds State Poet Sharon Olds is the author of seven volumes of poetry. Her latest work, The Wellspring (1996), shares with her previous work the use of raw language and startling images to convey truths about domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationships and the body. The reviewer for the New York Times hailed Olds's poetry for its vision: "Like Whitman, Ms. Olds sings the body in celebration of a power stronger than political oppression." Olds's second volume of poetry, The Dead and the Living (1984), won the Lamont Poetry Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Critics praised these poems for their power and their language as they unflinchingly explored sexual abuse and linked it with overt political oppression. A reviewer for the Iowa Review wrote: "What makes these poems gripping is not only their humanity, the recognizable and plausibly complex rendering of character and representative episode, but their languagedirect, down to earth, immersed in the essential implements and processes of daily living..." Sharon Olds is a native Californian who earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Olds is a founding chair of the Writing Program at Goldwater Hospital for the severely physically disabled. She is currently chair of New York University's Creative Writing Program.

4. An Introduction To Sharon Olds Sharon Olds is a relatively modern poet. Born in 1942 in San Francisco, she attended Stanford and Columbia Universities. Little has been written about Olds, http://www.poetsforum.com/papers/213_1.html

The Sleeping Giant Poetry and Literature Discussion Forum Guest Poets ... The Sunlight on the Garden This site is owned and maintained by William Ames, a member of the Modern Language Association An Introduction to Sharon Olds Sharon Olds is a relatively modern poet. Born in 1942 in San Francisco, she attended Stanford and Columbia Universities. Little has been written about Olds, since she has only been published since 1980. She teaches at New York University and runs their workshop program for the Goldwater Hospital in New York, and she has enjoyed acclaim in her short career. Olds has won the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for Satan Says (1980), the Lamont Poetry Selection and National Book Critics Circle Award for The Dead and the Living (1984), and the T. S. Eliot Prize for The Father (1992). (Olds, Wellspring ) Sharon Olds has been the recipient of endowments from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and she has published widely in periodicals such as The New Yorker Poetry The Atlantic Monthly and others. (Olds

5. Sharon Olds - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a hellfire Calvinist. After graduating from Stanford University she moved east to earn a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Olds

Sharon Olds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Sharon Olds (born November 19 ) is an American poet and author of eight volumes of poetry. Contents Life Poetry Letter to Laura Bush Bibliography ... edit Life Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco . She was raised as a "hellfire Calvinist ." After graduating from Stanford University she moved east to earn a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University . Olds has been the recipient of many awards including the San Francisco Poetry Center Award , the Lamont Poetry Prize , The National Books Critics Circle Award , and the T. S. Eliot Prize. She currently teaches creative writing at New York University edit Poetry Her book, The Wellspring (1996), shares with her previous work the use of raw language and startling images to convey truths about domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationships, and the body. The reviewer for The New York Times hailed Olds's poetry for its vision: "Like Whitman , Ms. Olds sings the body in celebration of a power stronger than political oppression." Her first collection

6. NTW Poetry Breaks I, Sharon Olds Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco, California. She was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book, Satan Says http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/NTW/FA/TITLES/Poetry71.HTML

Poetry Breaks I, Sharon Olds Alternative Title: Sharon Olds Leita Hagemann Luchetti and WGBH Educational Foundation Air Date: 1988-present Artist: Olds, Sharon Extent: 1 videocassette of 1 (38 min.) : sd., col. ; 1 in. 1 videocassette of 1 (Betacam SP) (38 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 1 videocassette of 1 (VHS) (38 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 1 videocassette of 1 (38 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. 4 videocassettes of 4 (Betacam SP) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. 4 videocassettes of 4 (VHS) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Background: Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco, California. She was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living, was the Lamont Poetry Selection in 1983 and a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Father (1992) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England. Sharon Olds teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helps run the N.Y.U. workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. Her latest book is Wellspring (1996). Scope: Includes a 1" master, Betacam SP preservation master (of the 1" master), and VHS and 3/4" screening copies. Betacam SP preservation masters and VHS screening copies of the source tapes exist. "Poetry Breaks" documentation includes shot logs of source tapes and masters.

7. Sharon Olds On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as olds sharon There are 5 conversations about Sharon Olds s books. Users with books by Sharon Olds http://www.librarything.com/author/oldssharon

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog Catherine Mauger 1 picture add a picture Author: Sharon Olds Also known as: Olds Sharon Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Sharon Olds combine/separate works The dead and the living : poems 184 copies, 1 review The gold cell : poems 183 copies, 1 review Satan says 148 copies, 1 review Blood, tin, straw 98 copies, review The father 89 copies, review The wellspring : poems 88 copies, 1 review The unswept room 82 copies, 1 review Strike sparks : selected poems, 1980-2002 62 copies, review 2 copies, review The Sign of Saturn 1 copy, review Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars 5 stars Common Knowledge Share what you know. view history You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data. For more help see the Common Knowledge help page Canonical name Gender Date of birth Date of death Burial location Nationality Places of residence Education Occupations Organizations Awards and honors Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (2002) Agents Short biography Disambiguation notice Conversations There are 5 conversations about Sharon Olds's books.

8. Sharon Olds Sharon Olds prays in many of her poems. The lines rise from the page like outcries, a quality that distinguishes Olds as one of the most accessible http://www.northcounty.com/arts/olds.htm

9. Sharon Olds On the Subway, by Sharon Olds. The Feminist Lens. 1. Read the poem aloud in your group. summarize what you think it means to apply a feminist lens to http://unjobs.org/authors/sharon-olds

Enter your search terms UNjobs.org Web Submit search form Geneva, 9 January 2008 International Humanitarian Law Reader Principle of Proportionality Reports from the Field Zambales, Philippines Photos Omaheke, Namibia Related Authors Grace Paley Sharon Olds Martin V. Rasmussen New Listings ... Authors Sharon Olds SHARON OLDS SHARON OLDS. KATHA POLLITT. SAPPHIRE. GRACE ... The Graduate Center, CUNY. 365 Fifth Avenue. New York, NY 10016-4309. PRESENTS. hosted by. SHARON OLDS ... http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Humanities/updates_05/Bush_RSVP.pdf "On the Subway," by Sharon Olds The Feminist Lens "On the Subway," by Sharon Olds. The Feminist Lens. 1. Read the poem aloud in your group. ... summarize what you think it means to apply a feminist lens to ... http://www.carleton.edu/departments/EDST... "On the Subway," by Sharon Olds The Marxist Lens "On the Subway," by Sharon Olds. The Marxist Lens. 1. Read the poem aloud in your group. ... summarize what you think it means to apply a Marxist lens to a text. ... http://www.carleton.edu/departments/EDST... Slaying Daddy: Subverting the Filial Elegy in Sharon Olds's The Father There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it ... Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father ...

10. APR Mar/Apr 2002 Vol. 31/No. 2 | Sharon Olds olds sharon Olds teaches in New York University s Graduate Creative Writing Program. The Unswept Room, her seventh book of poems, is due out from Knopf in http://www.aprweb.org/issues/mar02/olds.html

Sharon Olds While He Told Me My First Hour That hour, I was most myself. I had shrugged my mother slowly off, I lay there taking my first breaths, as if the air of the room was blowing me like a bubble. All I had to do was go out along the line of my gaze and back, feeling gravity, silk, the pressure of the air a caress, smelling on myself her creamy blood. The air was softly touching my skin and mouth, entering me and drawing forth the little sighs I did not know as mine. I was not afraid. I lay in the quiet and looked, and did the wordless thought, my mind was getting its oxygen direct, the rich mix by mouth. I hated no one. I gazed and gazed, and everything was interesting, I was free, not yet in love, I did not belong to anyone, I had drunk no milk yetno one had my heart. I was not very human. I did not know there was anyone else. I lay like a god, for an hour, then they came for me and took me to my mother. Last Hour Sharon Olds teaches in New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program. The Unswept Room

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12. Sharon Olds Sharon Olds. Sex Without Love Topography home Last updated 2001.11.7. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~richie/poetry/html/auth108.html

13. Sharon Olds www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olds/olds.htm sharon oldsBorn in San Francisco on November 19, 1942, sharon olds earned a B.A. at Stanford University and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/olds/olds.htm

Sharon Olds (1942- ) About Sharon Olds On "The Waiting" Reviews of Blood, Tin, Straw ... External Links Compiled and Prepared by Jacque Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Return to Modern American Poetry Home Return to Poets Index

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Poem Hunter .com Poet: Sharon Olds - All poems of Sharon Olds 1/27/2008 8:44:53 AM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Sharon Olds Poems Quotations Comments More Info ... Stats Poems Search in the poems of Sharon Olds Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: A Week Later Crab Japanese-American Farmhouse, California, 1942 May 1968 ... The Unborn Page: Quotations "... to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds." Sharon Olds (b. 1942), U.S. poet. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 18 (1993). On why writing poetry, though "always difficult," is easier than not writing it. "The symmetrical piles of white bodies, the round white breast-shapes of the heaps, the smell of the smoke, the dogs the wires the rope the hunger. It had happened to others. There was a word for us. I was: a Jew." Sharon Olds (b. 1942), U.S. Jewish poet. "That Year," lines 24-28 (1980). On seeing, in social studies class, photographs from Auschwitz, a Nazi concentration camp located in Poland, where more than one million Jews were killed during World War II.

15. Open Letter To Laura Bush Poet sharon olds writes an open letter to Laura Bush, explaining why she won t break bread at the White House. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/olds

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16. Salon: Sharon Olds Domesticity, death, erotic love the stark simplicity of sharon olds subjects, and of her plainspoken language, can sometimes make her seem like the http://www.salon.com/weekly/interview960701.html

S H A R O N O L D S The poet talks about breathing, the Pope's penis, and the necessity of getting out of art's way By DWIGHT GARNER Illustration by Charlie Powell D omesticity, death, erotic love the stark simplicity of Sharon Olds' subjects, and of her plain-spoken language, can sometimes make her seem like the brooding Earth Mother of American poetry. ("I have learned to get pleasure," Olds wrote in her last book, "from speaking of pain.") In photographs she tends to look somewhat dark and remote, too; there's a sense of brewing drama. She seems a natural heir to such melancholy talents as Ann Sexton and Sylvia Plath. It's a happy surprise, then, to discover that the 54-year-old Olds is anything but withdrawn and more-serious-than-thou. In fact, she comes across as a bundle of nervous energy, slightly neurotic, a bit like an intellectual Julie Haggerty. It's the end of the semester at New York University, where Olds has taught in the Graduate Creative Writing Program for the last 12 years, and the atmosphere outside her small office is chaotic. Olds herself arrives a few minutes late, looking slightly harried, and apologizes profusely while pulling two paper cups of tea from a brown bag one for herself, one for a visitor. It's hard to blame her for seeming a little breathless. In addition to her multiple duties at NYU, Olds runs the poetry workshop she founded in 1984 at New York's Goldwater Hospital for the severely disabled, and she reads at numerous speaking engagements. What's more, she claims to have such a backlog of poetry that when she does find the time to issue a new book such as "The Wellspring" (Knopf), published earlier this year it is generally made up of work written more than a decade earlier.

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18. 'Never Having Had You, I Cannot Let You Go': Sharon Old's Poems Of A Father-daug Never having had you, I cannot let you go sharon olds poems of a fatherdaughter relationship from Literary Review in Arts provided free by Find Articles. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2078/is_n1_v37/ai_14765959

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19. In A Dark Time … The Eye Begins To See » Sharon Old’s The Unswept R It’s never a good sign when it takes me a long time to read a book of poetry, and I started reading sharon olds’ The Unswept Room just before Christmas when http://www.lorenwebster.net/In_a_Dark_Time/2004/01/07/sharon-olds-the-unswept-ro

The Unswept Room Thomas F. Dillingham notes FIRST WEEKS how to love our daughter. Her face looked crushed, crumpled with worry-and not even despair, but just depression, a look of endurance. The skin of her face was finely wrinkled, there were wisps of hair on her ears, she looked a little like a squirrel, suspicious, tranced. And smallish, 6.13, wizened-she looked as if she were wincing away from me without moving. The first moment I had seen her, my glasses off, in the delivery room, a blur of blood, and blue skin, and limbs, I had known her, upside down, and they righted her, and there came that faint, almost sexual, wail, and her whole body flushed rose. When I saw her next, she was bound in cotton, someone else had cleaned her, wiped the inside of my body off her and combed her hair in narrow scary plough-lines. She was ten days early; sleepy, the breast so engorged it stood out nearly even with the nipple, her lips would so much as approach it, it would hiss and spray. In two days we took her home, she shrieked

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Site Map FAQ in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Daily Almanac for Jan 27, 2008 Search White Pages Skip Navigation Home Almanacs ... Word of the Day Editor's Favorites 2007 Year in Review Black History Month Leap Year Martin Luther King Day ... 2008 Calendar Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips Biography Sharon Olds American poet Born: November 19, 1942 Birthplace: San Francisco Sharon Olds has published seven volumes of poetry, including The Dead and the Living , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1984, and was the New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000. She is often described as “raw” for her use of direct language and her honest approach to topics such as sexuality, relationships, and violence, both political and personal. Olds made the news in September 2005, when she declined an invitation from First Lady Laura Bush to read from her works at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., and to dine at the White House. Said Olds: "I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it." Buy it at amazon.com

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