SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012 collection, Stag’s Leap, she is the author of ten previous books of poetry and the winner of many other awards and honors, including the Wallace Stevens Award, the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first book, Satan Says (1980), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second, The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. The Father was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped to found the NYU outreach programs, among them the writing workshop for residents of Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. She lives in New York City.
Winner of the 2016 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of
American Poets
“A brazenly honest, humorous meditation on the body, sex, love, and
death...A bold yet charming celebration of both the poetic form and
the imperfection of our humanness.” —BuzzFeed
“Odes picks up where Stag’s Leap left off, which is to say that it
contains some of the best and most ingenious poems of her career.”
—The New York Times
“Odes sees Olds fully restored to the world, enjoying life in all
its variety. It’s perhaps the funniest book I’ve read this year,
and also among the most moving and philosophical, charged with the
kind of metaphysical self-interrogation that is a central, though
often overlooked, aspect of her work.” —The New Yorker
“Olds has many lurid imitators who miss her great project. Yes, her
poems present matter-of-celebratory-fact aspects of the body
sexual, but they never merely focus on parts as parts. Instead,
they are connected to the whole of human experience, personal,
historical, and even mythological.” —World Literature Today
“Sharon Olds is a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t
back down.” —San Francisco Chronicle
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