(Hardcover - English - 9780525656951)
Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Prize for Poetry winner, called a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down (San Francisco Chronicle ). At the time of have-not,look at myself in this mirror, writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: she was our Girl - our Woman - Man enough - for me) and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence rhythm. Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seei ..