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Laddar... The Father (1992)av Sharon Olds
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A friend recommended Sharon Olds to me after we had a conversation about Neruda, Bukowski, and various favorite poets. I'm a tough judge of poetry - but Olds had me literally crying. The subject - her father/father figures - is relatable, as are the subtopics of mortality and intimacy. If you want to be messed up for a few days, read this collection. I tore through it and was both devastated and feeling incredibly alive by the end of it. It is both beautiful and agonizing. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may seem to lead. The book goes into areas of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry. The ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor--and without bitterness.
The deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Olds' work find here their most powerful expression. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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