- Published: 15 November 2009
- ISBN: 9780224090025
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 88
- RRP: $27.99
The Father
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- Published: 15 November 2009
- ISBN: 9780224090025
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 88
- RRP: $27.99
The elegy is one of the root-forms of poetry, but the fifty-two poems in Sharon Olds' The Father, radiating from a death, feel new. The death of the father - anticipated, witnessed, remembered - draws from Olds an extraordinary dry attentiveness... It is a wonderful book.
Adam Mars-Jones, Independent on Sunday
Sharon Olds's poems are pure fire in the hands - risky, on the verge of falling, and in the end leaping up. I love the roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss.
Michael Ondaatje