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Balladz
By Sharon Olds
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By Sharon Olds
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Contemporary poetry is on such solid and fertile ground when we can read Louise Glück, Ross Gay, Ada Limón, and now the latest collection from Sharon Olds. We urge you to take your time with this volume. It's relevant, emotional, and full of wisdom. We continue to argue that poets should rule the world. Sharon Olds’s Balladz backs this theory up.
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • 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 won’t back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"At the time of have-not, I 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 Dickins...
"At the time of have-not, I 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 Dickins...