Best Olds
Satan Says is the debut poetry collection by American poet Sharon Olds, published in 1980. Its direct, intimate poems address family relationships, sexuality, anger, childhood, and the body in a voice frequently associated with confessional poetry. The collection received the San Francisco Poetry Ce...
The Wellspring is a poetry collection by American poet Sharon Olds, published in the 1990s. Its poems examine childhood, parents, marriage, sexuality, childbirth, and the experience of raising children, using the intimate family material and direct treatment of the body associated with Olds's work....
Arias is a poetry collection by American poet Sharon Olds, published in 2019 by Knopf. The collection draws on operatic structures and imagery to explore themes of voice, emotion, violence, and personal experience, including reflections on contemporary American political life. Olds, who won the Puli...
Odes is a 2016 poetry collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Sharon Olds. In this book, Olds modernizes the classical ode form, applying it to contemporary subjects to celebrate the human body, intimate relationships, and everyday life. Writing in her signature confessional style, she ex...
