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May 1968 by Sharon Olds

Apr 18, 2024 | poetrynook.com | Sharon Olds

May 1968When the Dean said we could not cross campusuntil the students gave up the buildings,we lay down, in the street,we said the cops will enter this gateover us. Lying back on the cobbles,I saw the buildings of New York Cityfrom dirt level, they soared upand stopped, chopped off--above them, the sky,the night air over the island.
“Love Song, with Removed Cyst”

Apr 8, 2024 | newyorker.com | Sharon Olds

Then we’re lying on the bed, in our clothes, in the overcast,after he has had the cyst removedfrom his knuckle, now bulbous with lattice bandage. It was like a wisdom tooth growing upout of his joint, they cut it outand cut its long roots out. He lies on his side, I lie on my back,he keeps the hand elevatedon my breast. Between us we have so many doctors now,maybe a dozen.
My Son the Man by Sharon Olds

Mar 24, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Sharon Olds

Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider, the way Houdini would expand his body while people were putting him in chains. It seems no time since I would help him to put on his sleeper, guide his calves into the gold interior, zip him up and toss him up and catch his weight. I cannot imagine him no longer a child, and I know I must get ready, get over my fear of men now my son is going to be one.
“Exorcism in Archaic Form,” by Sharon Olds

Mar 4, 2024 | newyorker.com | Sharon Olds

terror. Painful agitation. Intense reluctance to face a personor situation. Aversion. Shock. Adjure, to command under oath, or penaltyof curse. To expel an evil spiritby adjuration. The word is besidea pen-and-ink of an Exmoor sheep, almostround with wool and mutton, like a white-motherbreast on four legs, with hoovesand horns. Mom, I adjure thee. Depart this child.
Sonetto della dipendenza

Nov 2, 2023 | internazionale.it | Sharon Olds

Un pregiudizio è una dipendenza, ed ècontagioso – i genitori infettano i propri figli. E la dipendenza è ossessiva, se un uomo trovadifficile mostrare il suo amore a suofiglio, può essere perché suo padreè fuggito con la sua vita da un villaggio in cuiil suo di padre era stato appena uccisoin un pogrom, il suo modello di padreun uomo terrorizzato. Ma la dipendenza da tale silenzio può esserecurata, come Carl e suo figlio hanno provato a farecon il duro lavoro.
Taking Stock by Maggie Queeney

Jul 13, 2023 | poetryfoundation.org | Sharon Olds

Read “Apology” by Sharon Olds several times, out loud or silently. Questions to consider, on your own in writing, or in discussion with others: What is the connection between the mice and the speaker’s mother? How is this poem an apology? Who is apologizing? For what, and to whom? Why does the speaker in the poem address the reader? How does that change the focus of the poem? Assignment: Think about something you have done that you wish you could apologize for doing.
Orion Magazine - A Fresh Vision

May 29, 2023 | orionmagazine.org | Sharon Olds

America's Finest Environmental Magazine https://orionmagazine.org:443/poetry/a-fresh-vision-sharon-olds/ One of the new vintage hankies is so delicate—linen lawn printed with blowsy ocher flowers, in them many black anthers—anemones—and with lining-of-the-body’s-openings bright pinks, and with lilies of the valley, turquoise inside—and I am taken back to who I was, what I came as, who they made, a fairly sturdy child with what they thought of as over- active senses. I loved to touch things...
A Poem by Sharon Olds: 'A Week Later'

May 17, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Sharon Olds

The poet Sharon Olds had been married for 32 years when her husband broke the news: He was leaving her for his co-worker. In her collection Stag’s Leap, she tries to make sense of that loss. She grieves and observes her own grief. She tracks the minute details in her days. She describes her hardest and most mundane moments: reacting to his announcement, remembering their joy, telling her mother. The poems are funny, compassionate, and furious.
Throwing Children

Apr 26, 2023 | poets.org | Ross Gay |January Gill O’Neil |Sharon Olds |“Chicken Dance

Is that Eric Garner workedfor some time for the Parks and Rec. Horticultural Department, which means,perhaps, that with his very large hands,perhaps, in all likelihood,he put gently into the earthsome plants which, most likely,some of them, in all likelihood,
What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems

Mar 19, 2023 | citylights.com | Ruth Stone |Sharon Olds

Foreword by: Sharon Olds Paperback Price: $25.00 What Love Comes to: New & Selected Poems quantity Overview A finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. “Ruth Stone is . . .