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Loading... The Wellspring: Poemsby Sharon Olds
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. The poems are deeply personal, with illusions to nature. The book is divided into sections, childhood with an emphasis on birth and discovery of sex, raising kids many focusing on their birth or contrasting their entry into later ages with the feelings of birth, and adult love and the death of parents. Many of the poems are exquisitely crafted allowing the reader to share her visceral feelings. (  ) snash | Mar 16, 2009 |  It was simply phenomenal. She wrote so personally you feel like you know her as a person. How someone could write about their sexual escapades, childbirth, growing up and old, in such a beautiful way (in the same book) is beyond me. I really feel honored that I read this. (  ) thefaintjoy | Feb 26, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0679765603, Paperback)The theme of Sharon Olds' fifth volume of poetry, The Wellspring is family and the sexual and sensual nature of the creation and sustenance of life--most often her own. From a time in her mother's life that preceded her own birth ("half of me/was deep in her body, dyed egg") to her father's testicles ("my brothers/and sisters are there, swimming by the cinerous/millions") to her son (who "waited inside me so many years/egg in my side before I was born"), her place in the reproductive life of her family is paramount. Even when the ostensible subject of a poem is as public as a campus antiwar demonstration, as in "May 1968," the real topic is creation and procreation: "The mounted police moved, near us/while we sang ... /if my period did not come tonight/I was pregnant."(retrieved from Amazon Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:53:05 -0500) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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