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The Wellspring

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Written by Sharon OldsAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Sharon Olds

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
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  • Publisher: Knopf
  • On Sale: January 30, 1996
  • Price: $18.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-76560-8 (0-679-76560-3)
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Sharon Olds's dazzling 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.



"Sharon Olds's poems are pure fire in the hands--risky, on the verge of falling, and in the end leaping up. I love the roughness and humor and brag and tenderness and completion in her work as she carries the reader through rooms of passion and loss."--Michael Ondaatje