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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoningby the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called 'a poet for these times, a powerful woman who wont back down' (San Francisco Chronicle).'At the time of havenot, I look at myself in this mirror,' writes Olds in this selfscouring, 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, longflowingsentence rhythm. Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her whiteness, seeing her privilege; seeing her mother (whom her readers will recognize) 'flushed 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 Olds's gift to us that in the 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.
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