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Sharon Olds
Biography
Sharon Olds is one of contemporary poetry’s leading voices. She is known for writing intensely anställda, emotionally scathing poetry which graphically depicts family life as well as global political events. Born in in San Francisco, Olds grew up in Berkeley, California where she was raised, she has said, as a “hellfire Calvinist.” She attended Stanford University and earned her PhD at Columbia in She was thirty-seven when she published her first book of poems, Satan Says(). Over several volumes, Olds has carved out a unique place in contemporary American poetry. Steve Kowit noted that Olds “has become a central presence in American poetry, her narrative and dramatic power as well as the sheer imagistic panache of her work having won her a large following.”•
Sharon Olds
American poet
Sharon Olds (born November 19, ) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in ,[1] the National Book Critics Circle Award,[2] and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[3] She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.[4]
Early life
[edit]Sharon Olds was born on November 19, , in San Francisco, California, but was brought up in Berkeley, California, along with her siblings.[5] She was raised as a "hellfire Calvinist," as she describes it.[6] Her father, like his before him, was an alcoholic who was often abusive to his children. In Olds' writing she often refers to the time (or possibly even times) when her father tied her to a chair.[7] Olds' mother was often either unable or too afraid to come to the aid of her children.
The strict religious environment in which Olds was raised ha
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Poetry
Her book, The Wellspring (), 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."[1]
Her first collection, Satan Says (), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. The poems explore intensely personal themes with unflinching