The Father: Poems

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The Father: Poems
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The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughterâ€™s vision of a fatherâ€™s illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry.

The ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humorâ€”and without bitterness.

The deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Oldâ€™s work find here their most powerful expression.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780679740025
Color Cream
ReleaseDate 1992-04-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780679740025

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780679740025
Color	Cream
ReleaseDate	1992-04-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780679740025

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