From the rear cover
The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may seem to lead. The book goes into areas of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry. The ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor--and without bitterness. The deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Olds' work find here their most powerful expression.
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- Title The Father: Poems
- Author Sharon Olds
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition; F
- Pages 96
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date 1992-04-21
- ISBN 9780679740025 / 0679740023
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.88 x 0.28 in (21.34 x 14.94 x 0.71 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Death - Poetry, Fathers and daughters - Poetry
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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- Booklist, 04/15/1992, Page 1498
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