The Wellspring: Poems

OLDS, SHARON

ISBN 10: 0679445927 / ISBN 13: 9780679445920

Published by Knopf, 1996

About this Item

- US First edition 1996 - Very minor shelfwear - Some foxing to edges of text block - Otherwise Clean bright tight book in untorn dustwrapper - 88 pages.

Seller Inventory # 637831

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Wellspring: Poems
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0679445927
• ISBN 13: 9780679445920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood--and, finally, to the depths of adult love.

Always bold, musical, honest, these poems plunge us into the essence of experience. This is a highly charged, beautifully organized collection from one of the finest poets writing today.

About the Author

Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her poetry has won both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York.