Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds (born 1942) is an American poet and author of seven volumes of poetry. Her book, The Wellspring (1996), shares with her previous work the use of raw language and startling images to convey truths about domestic and political violence, sexuality, family relationships, and the body. The reviewer for The New York Times hailed Olds's poetry for its vision: "Like Whitman, Ms. Olds sings the body in celebration of a power stronger than political oppression."http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olds.html

Bibliography

• Satan Says (1980)
• The Dead and the Living (1984)
• The Gold Cell (1987)
• The Father (1992)
• The Wellspring (1996)
• Blood, Tin, Straw (1999)
• The Unswept Room (2002)
• Strike Sparks: Selected Poems (2004)

Sharon Olds has a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at NYU. Olds has been the recipient of many awards including the San Francisco Poetry Center Award, the Lamont Poetry Prize, The National Books Critics Circle Award, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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