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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 Old's work find here their most powerful expression.","brand":"Sharon Olds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806566514730,"sku":"9780679740025","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/father-poems-1801069.jpg?v=1762480915"},{"product_id":"dead-and-the-living","title":"Dead and the Living","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry Lewis say, \"The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called 'beauty.'\" It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. \u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Sharon Olds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806566580266,"sku":"9780394715636","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/dead-and-the-living-9029473.jpg?v=1762480915"},{"product_id":"gold-cell","title":"Gold Cell","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling collection of poems by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. 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Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her whiteness, seeing her privilege; seeing her mother (whom her readers will recognize) \"flushed exalted at Punishment time\"; seeing how we've spoiled the earth but carrying a stray indoor spider carefully back out to the garden. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is Olds's gift to us that in the richly detailed exposure of her sorrows she can still elegize songbirds, her true kin, and write that heaven comes here in life, not after it.","brand":"Sharon Olds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806566744106,"sku":"9781524711610","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/balladz-5358099.jpg?v=1762480913"},{"product_id":"one-secret-thing","title":"One Secret Thing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful collection of poems about family and grief--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. 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