Understanding Sharon Olds / Russell Brickey.
| Author/creator | Brickey, Russell author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | xi, 139 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Understanding contemporary American literature Understanding contemporary American literature. ^A224489 |
| Contents | Understanding Sharon Olds -- Manifestos -- The father poems -- The mother poems -- Love, good sex, bad sex, sex and marriage, divorce -- War, suicide, freaks : the poet outside herself. |
| Abstract | "Understanding Sharon Olds explores this Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's major themes, characters, life, and career, including her often-controversial portrayals of family dysfunction, sexuality, and violence against women. In this first book dedicated entirely to the poetry of Sharon Olds, Russell Brickey examines how Olds approaches these difficult and complex topics with pathos and intimate, sometimes provocatively private, details through poetry that not all her critics appreciate. Olds has never shied away from difficult subject matter. Her first award-winning book, Satan Says, is a feminist exploration of gender politics and adolescent discovery. The Father comprises a book-length elegy about cancer. Stag's Leap, Olds's Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, is a surprisingly tender look at divorce in modern American culture. Extremely personal, her poems often deal with the victories and contradictions woman have faced in the United States during a time when the country has been involved in racial upheavals and overseas military conflicts. Investigating the challenges of being a wife and mother during the era of feminism, she is one of our most honest, most overt poets of female sexuality and its relationship to family life and its place within the history of humanity."-- Page 4 of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-132) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Brickey, Russell, author. Understanding Sharon Olds. Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, 2016 9781611177121 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2016047769 |
| ISBN | 9781611177114 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 1611177111 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |