02245cam a2200385 i 4500 966908197 TxAuBib 20230907120000.0 220121s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022001788 9780525656951 hardcover 0525656952 hardcover 9781524711610 trade paperback 1524711616 trade paperback TxAuBib rda Olds, Sharon,. Balladz [book] / Sharon Olds. First edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. xiv, 171 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize"--Cover. "A Borzoi Book". Includes bibliographical references. "A new poetry collection from Pulitzer and T. S. Eliot Prize winner Sharon Olds. "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 Dickinson: "she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me") and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence rhythm, in which she sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and old age all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her white privilege without apology; seeing her mother, whom readers of Olds will recognize, "flushed and exalted at punishment time"; seeing how we've spoiled the earth but carrying a stray indoor spider carefully back out to the garden. It is Sharon's gift to us that in her richly detailed exposure of her sorrows she can still elegize songbirds, her true kin, and write that heaven comes here in life, not after it"-- Provided by publisher. 20230907. American poetry 21st century. Poetry. Poetry. fast Poetry. fast Poésie. rvmgf Olds, Sharon, 1942-, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.