Gold Cell
Place on List:
III. Period: 1960 - 2009
3. Primary Texts: Poetry
Sharon
Olds. Gold
Cell.
(1987)
Supporting References:
- "Olds, Sharon." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. Eds. Drabble, Margaret, Jenny Stringer, and Daniel Hahn. : Oxford University Press, 2007. Oxford Reference. 2007. Date Accessed 16 Aug. 2013
This article
references the poet and not the text specifically.
“Olds, Sharon (1942– ), American poet, born in San Francisco,
educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, now resident in New
York. Her earlier collections include Satan Says (1980), The
Dead and the Living (1984), and The Gold Cell (1987).
The Sign of Saturn was published in Britain in 1991, where
her reputation has since been firmly established. Olds is widely
regarded as heir to the confessional
tradition of R. Lowell,
Plath,
and Sexton.
Her fluid, descriptive free‐verse
forms are consistently rich in metaphor, and display her power to
transform an often harsh reality through startling imagery into the
kind of art that transcends the personal. Olds's many studies of her
parents and her children include The Father (1992), which is
the poetic narrative of her father's illness and death from cancer.
The Wellspring (1996) explores themes of sex, love, and
mortality, and continues the poet's celebratory expression of life
and the redemptive power of love. Strike Sparks: Selected Poems
1980–2002 appeared in 2004.
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