Today's Poet - Sharon Olds (b.1942)

[moosesal]

I think I've shared Olds' work with you before. One of my books on writing poetry suggests buying all of Olds' books and reading them twice -- once for pleasure, once for instruction. silvertedy gave me her latest book The Unswept Room for my birthday. These poems are a little different in their form than her early work, but the messages are still as clear.

Comments

[mahaliem]

I really like that poem by Sharon Olds. I'm going to have to look into more of her work.

[moosesal]

She's great. I recommend any of her work. I would sum up her writing by saying she writes about her life and brings in a bit of the outside world when doing so. (As opposed to poets who write about the outside world and inject a bit of themselves.) Lots of stuff about sex, love, marriage, her childhood, her parents, her kids, etc. And all very accessible with multiple layers of meaning and message.