The Dead and the Living Poems
by OLDS, SHARONFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1984-02-12
Publisher(s): Knopf
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Summary
The 1983 Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets.
Author Biography
Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book of poems, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the N.Y.U. workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. More recently she was awarded the Walt Whitman Citation for Merit by the New York State Writers Institute of the State University of New York. The citation officially invested her with the title of New York State Poet for 1998-2000.
Table of Contents
| Poems for the Dead | |
| Public | |
| Ideographs | p. 5 |
| Photograph of the Girl | p. 6 |
| Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 | p. 7 |
| Portrait of a Child | p. 8 |
| Nevsky Prospekt | p. 9 |
| The Death of Marilyn Monroe | p. 10 |
| The Issues | p. 11 |
| Aesthetics of the Shah | p. 12 |
| Things That Are Worse Than Death | p. 13 |
| Private | |
| The Guild | p. 17 |
| Grandmother Love Poem | p. 18 |
| The Eye | p. 19 |
| Birthday Poem for My Grandmother | p. 20 |
| Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once | p. 21 |
| Farewell Poem | p. 22 |
| The Winter After Your Death | p. 24 |
| Miscarriage | p. 25 |
| The End | p. 26 |
| Best Friends | p. 27 |
| Absent One | p. 28 |
| Poems for the Living | |
| The Family | |
| Possessed | p. 33 |
| The Victims | p. 34 |
| The Forms | p. 35 |
| The Departure | p. 36 |
| Burn Center | p. 37 |
| The Ideal Father | p. 38 |
| Fate | p. 40 |
| My Father Snoring | p. 41 |
| The Moment | p. 42 |
| My Father's Breasts | p. 43 |
| The Takers | p. 44 |
| The Pact | p. 45 |
| The Derelict | p. 46 |
| Late Speech with My Brother | p. 47 |
| The Elder Sister | p. 48 |
| The Men | |
| The Connoisseuse of Slugs | p. 51 |
| Poem to My First Lover | p. 52 |
| New Mother | p. 53 |
| The Line | p. 54 |
| The Fear of Oneself | p. 55 |
| Poem to My Husband from My Father's Daughter | p. 56 |
| Sex Without Love | p. 57 |
| Ecstasy | p. 58 |
| The Children | |
| Exclusive | p. 61 |
| Six-Year-Old Boy | p. 62 |
| Eggs | p. 63 |
| Size and Sheer Will | p. 64 |
| For My Daughter | p. 65 |
| Rite of Passage | p. 66 |
| Relinquishment | p. 67 |
| Son | p. 68 |
| Pre-Adolescent in Spring | p. 69 |
| Blue Son | p. 70 |
| Pajamas | p. 71 |
| The Killer | p. 72 |
| The Sign of Saturn | p. 73 |
| Armor | p. 74 |
| 35/10 | p. 75 |
| The Missing Boy | p. 76 |
| Bread | p. 77 |
| Bestiary | p. 78 |
| The One Girl at the Boys' Party | p. 79 |
| The Couple | p. 80 |
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