{"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. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called \"a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy--sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger--public and private--illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. \u003ci\u003eOne Secret Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is charged throughout with Sharon Olds's characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe doctor on the phone was young, maybe on his\u003cbr\u003efirst rotation in the emergency room.\u003cbr\u003eOn the ancient boarding-school radio, \u003cbr\u003ein the attic hall, the announcer had given my\u003cbr\u003eboyfriend's name as one of two\u003cbr\u003ebrought to the hospital after the sunrise\u003cbr\u003eservice, the egg-hunt, the crash--one of them\u003cbr\u003ecritical, one of them dead. I was looking at the\u003cbr\u003estairwell banisters, at their lathing, \u003cbr\u003ethe necks and knobs like joints and bones, \u003cbr\u003ethe varnish here thicker here thinner--I had said\u003cbr\u003eWhich one of them died, and now the world was\u003cbr\u003ean ant's world: the huge crumb of each\u003cbr\u003esecond thrown, somehow, up onto\u003cbr\u003emy back, and the young, tired voice\u003cbr\u003esaid my fresh love's name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efrom \"Easter 1960\"","brand":"Sharon Olds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43806566809642,"sku":"9780375711770","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/one-secret-thing-3414823.jpg?v=1762480913","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/one-secret-thing","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}