The Wellspring: Poems - Hardcover

Olds, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679445927 ISBN 13: 9780679445920

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1996

Synopsis

A sequence of poems which follow the course of life, from the womb through childhood, sexual awakening, and the experiences of childbirth, parenthood, and adult love

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her poetry has won both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679445927
• ISBN 13: 9780679445920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88