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By: After the storm « Letting go

After the storm « Letting go — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:07:23 +0000

[...] Poem for the Breasts [...]

By: donalmahoney1

donalmahoney1 — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 10:41:42 +0000

Sharon Olds may be a flibbertigibbet but she is different than most flibbertigibbets in that she can write far better than most flibbertigibbets and better than most folks who are dull but not shy a few sandwiches for a picnic. An incandescent mind often has to deal with daily emotional bonfires. Too bad she didn’t take up quilting. No one would have had to listen to her talk to herself.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:35:12 +0000

Sorry…I come to something like this and the poem stops me in its tracks(lines) and I find myself turning the page, even worse, closing the book.

Really? Then you’re not much a reader. Not that I care for Olds’ poems as I think she is the kind of poet who thinks taking off her clothes in public and telling other people’s personal business is art.

By: donalmahoney1

donalmahoney1 — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:12:29 +0000

To each his own, Bob, said the old lady as she kissed the cow.

By: Bob Dow

Bob Dow — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 14:37:07 +0000

Way to wordy gurdy and boring

By: Michael Koehler

Michael Koehler — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 05:35:15 +0000

Been a while since I’ve read Sharon’s poems. You make me want to visit with her again. As Donal alluded to, I remember first reading her, I covered my stuff with my hand, fearing she’d rip ‘em off.

By: Alice D'Alessio

Alice D'Alessio — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 22:27:19 +0000

Oh Wow! I’d forgotten how powerful she is – how wrenching…No-one does the separation torment so well!

By: Donal Mahoney

Donal Mahoney — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:26:54 +0000

If there is a poet writing better poems than Sharon Olds today, I’d like to know that poet’s name. I can only think of one and his work is so very different–Seamus Heaney.

Sharon Olds makes me forget about Sylvia Plath whose work I read when it was fresh and Ted Hughes was the problem and I was living in Chicago.

I don’t think Plath’s work, as a body of work, tears me up inside as much as Sharon Olds’ work does.

Sharon Olds makes it very uncomfortable to be a man.