41. [minstrels] Sex Without Love -- Sharon Olds 812 Sex Without Love. Title Sex Without Love. Poet sharon olds. Date 16 Jun 2001. sharon olds. Comments A poem that is not easily forgettable? http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/812.html

[812] Sex Without Love Title : Sex Without Love Poet : Sharon Olds Date : 16 Jun 2001 How do they do it, t... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq Sex Without Love How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? Beautiful as dancers, Gliding over each other like ice-skaters over the ice, fingers hooked inside each other's bodies, faces red as steak, wine, wet as the children at birth, whose mothers are going to give them away. How do they come to the come to the come to the God come to the still waters, and not love the one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin? These are the true religious, the purists, the pros, the ones who will not accept a false Messiah, love the priest instead of the God. They do not mistake the lover for their own pleasure, they are like great runners: they know they are alone with the road surface, the cold, the wind, the fit of their shoes, their over-all cardio vascular healthjust factors, like the partner in the bed, and not the truth, which is the single body alone in the universe against its own best time. Sharon Olds [Comments] A poem that is not easily forgettable? I think Olds tries to answer a question that we have all asked at some point or the other in some form or the other. One of the nice things about the poem is that there is this nice balance between the view on the one hand that making love is the wonderful, sharing/caring type thing it is: ... How do they come to the come to the come to the God come to the still waters, and not love the one who came there with them, light rising slowly as steam off their joined skin? ... On the other hand, there is this superb analogy with long distance running. And as a wannabe long distance runner and admirer of long distance running (in a vaguely "Chariots of Fire"-y sense!), that is a particularly powerful image, of the marathoner-hedonist. In the end though, there doesn't seem to be an answer the "coming to the still waters" bit is as weighty as the long distance runner bit. More questions! [Links] There is a page on the poet at

42. Poetry Daily Feature: Sharon Olds - Five Points Points Volume VI, Number 2. Online Bookstore Listing sharon oldssharon olds's most recent volume of poetry is Blood, Tin, Straw. http://www.poems.com/fivepold.htm

Good Measure by Sharon Olds Five Points Volume VI, Number 2 Online Bookstore Listing Sharon Olds: Sharon Olds's most recent volume of poetry is Blood, Tin, Straw . She is a recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, and others. She teaches at New York University. About Five Points Since the publication of its inaugural issue in 1996, Five Points has become one of this country's best literary magazines. Published three times a year by Georgia State University's Department of English and Creative Writing Program, each issue features poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews with the most compelling writers working today. Philip Levine calls Five Points "A refreshing combination of the old and the new. The best literary magazine I've read in ages!" In 1998 Five Points received a Best New Journal Award from the Council of Literary Magazines. Works first published in Five Points have been selected to appear in Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Best of the Small Presses, New Stories from the South, Utne Reader, Harper's, Poetry Daily , and Norton's In Short . Previous contributors include Charles Wright, Joyce Carol Oates, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Richard Bausch, Naomi Shihab Nye, W. S. Merwin, Christine Stewart, Martin Walls, and many others.

43. Borzoi Reader | Authors | Sharon Olds Excerpted from The Unswept by sharon olds. Copyright© 2002 by sharon olds. Excerptedfrom Blood, Tin, Straw by sharon olds. Copyright© 1999 by sharon olds. http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/olds/poem.html

The Unswept Room Blood, Tin, Straw The Wellspring The Father The Gold Cell The Dead and the Living The Unswept from THE UNSWEPT ROOM Broken bay leaf. Olive pit. Crab leg. Claw. Crayfish armor. Whelk shell. Mussel shell. Dogwinkle. Snail. Wishbone tossed unwished on. Test of sea urchin. Chicken foot. Wrasse skeleton. Hen head eye shut, beak open as if singing in the dark. Laid down in tiny tiles, by the rhyparographer, each scrap has a shadowach shadow cast by a different light. Permanently fresh husks of the feast! When the guest has gone, the morsels dropped on the floor are left as food for the deadO my characters, my imagined, here are some fancies of crumbs from under love's table. Excerpted from The Unswept By Fire from BLOOD, TIN, STRAW When I pass an abandoned half-wrecked building, on a waste-lot, in winter, the smell of the cold rot decides me I am not going to rot. I will not lie down in the ground with the cauliflower and the eggshell mushroom, and grow a fungus out of my stomach like a foetus, my face sluicing off me

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45. Plagiarist.com Poetry » A Place For The Genuine. sharon olds' Orifices The Inculcation Of Tedium. On Poets More Articles InThis Series by Dan Schneider 9 April 2002. olds, sharon. Blood, Tin, Straw. http://www.plagiarist.com/articles/?artid=20

46. Poetry: Sharon Olds Back to list sharon olds (b. 1942) LINKS No links at this time. BIOGRAPHYsharon olds (b. 1942). Born in San Francisco, olds attended http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/litlinks/poetry/olds.htm

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47. Sharon Olds Poetry Reading On 03/11/2003 Poetry Reading by sharon olds.......Help. sharon olds Poetry Reading 03/11/2003 @ 0700 PM Category Cultural Events. Emailaddress Lisa Lewis. http://home.okstate.edu/osuevents.nsf/2364d7716ad847dc86256425007b705b/93a458d11

Help Sharon Olds Poetry Reading 07:00 PM Category: Cultural Events Sponsor: English Department Contact: Lisa Lewis Location: Library Browsing Room Associated Cost: Email address: Lisa Lewis Description: Poetry Reading by Sharon Olds. Sharon Olds books include Satan Says, (1980), The Dead and the Living, (1985), The Gold Cell, (1987), The Father, (1992), The Wellspring, (1996), Blood, Tin, Straw (1999), and The Unswept Room, (2002). She teaches graduate creative writing at New York University and is the founder of the NYU Poetry Workshop at Goldwater Hospital for the severely disabled. The Dead and the Living was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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Search: Welcome to arts-entertainment-recreation.com, the comprehensive search portal dedicated to the arts. We have located some of the finest art and entertainment resources from across the Web and accumulated them into a single directory. Here you can choose from a wide variety of documents, reviews, articles, and Web sites about your favorite activities. Whether you enjoy film, Broadway shows, television, books, fine art, or travel, there is something here for you. As you peruse the directory, you will notice several categories pertaining to the arts. Feel free to navigate through these categories, from broad art-related topics to specific information on selected subjects. Our search portal also gives you the option to conduct a query using our intelligent search feature. Arts Literature Authors O Olds, Sharon Sharon Olds "On The Subway" On the Subway URL: http://acker.cwrl.utexas.edu/slatin/olds/olds.html New York State Writers Institute - Sharon Olds Sharon Olds URL: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/olds.html

49. Sharon Olds' Orifices 02. Jessica Schneider ‘So, Don, what do you think of sharon olds?’. olds,sharon. Blood, Tin, Straw. Oct. 1999. 112p. Knopf http://www.cosmoetica.com/D18-DES13.htm

On American Poetry Criticism; PART 9: Jessica Schneider: ‘ So, Don, what do you think of Sharon Olds? Don Moss: ‘ -from the Great Quotes of Don Moss , Volume 3, Quote # 1378 th Wynona had a big brown beaver, indeed! st book hit! So, now that I’ve listed the grievances; Chino- cue the wavy lines- it’s flashback time Time: 1998, summer Place: St. Paul Minnesota- a library basement Scene: Hungry Mind Review The Loft , well- fortuity, thy name is Patsy. The room was filled with about 30 older people there to learn of poetry. All but me were over 50. All but a handful were female. All but a handful were obese. A very obese woman of 70 or so was constantly smiling at me. I dared not think what was echoing through her cranial hollows! Patsy would cue each gathering to begin- then inanely declaim on some poet or subject. By now, those of you who know me- or have read some of my other prose writings- know about Patsy’s legendary moment of stolidity during a class reading of Allen Ginsberg’s humorous poem A Supermarket In California Ginsberg did not wanna ram Walt Whitman up the ass!

50. Ploughshares, The Literary Journal Sitemap. Author Login. Authors Articles sharon olds This bio was last updatedon 07/31/2001. sharon olds. sharon olds, Frontis Nulla Fides, Poetry, Fall 2001. http://www.pshares.org/Authors/authorDetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=1144

51. Key West Literary Seminar - Poetry 2003 - Sharon Olds Key West Literary Seminar the beautiful changes poetry 2003 sharon olds Read sharonolds' I Go Back to May 1937. (from The Gold Cell) © sharon olds close. http://www.keywestliteraryseminar.org/poetry/p_olds.htm

Scheduled Poets Kim Addonizio John Ashbery Lucille Clifton Billy Collins ... C. D. Wright We regret that Carolyn Kizer finds that she will not be able to be with us. 2003 Seminar Main Page 2003 Registration 2003 Workshops 2003 Schedule ... Literary Seminar Home Page TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL Key West Literary Seminar the beautiful changes poetry 2003 Sharon Olds Read Sharon Olds' I Go Back to May 1937 Born in San Francisco in 1942, Sharon Olds studied at Stanford University and received a master's degree from Columbia University. Her numerous honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship; the San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first collection, Satan Says (1980); and the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award for

52. Titanic Operas: Sharon Olds I THINK EMILY DICKINSON WOULD HAVE BEEN POLITICAL TODAY by sharon olds.Thank you very much. Partly in deference to the age in which http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/olds.html

I THINK EMILY DICKINSON WOULD HAVE BEEN POLITICAL TODAY by Sharon Olds Thank you very much. Partly in deference to the age in which Emily lived, and partly in deference to the climate of the room, I'm beginning my reading in gloves. Now I'm here, no I arrivethere. I think she's such an astonishing poet, such an astonishing being, that she wrote at all and that she wrote so brilliantly. That there was at that time and place a great poet is always powerfully moving to me. I especially love her rhythm. We'll all be saying what we love best, and what we feel most connected to. And since one of the things in poetry that's the strongest for me is rhythm, that was one of the things I first responded to in Emily Dickinson. I envy Seas, whereon He rides - I envy Spokes of Wheels Of Chariots, that Him convey - I envy Crooked Hills That gaze upon His journey - How easy All can see What is forbidden utterly As Heaven - unto me! I envy Nests of Sparrows - That dot His distant Eaves - The wealthy fly, upon His Pane - The happy - happy Leaves - That just abroad His Window Have Summer's leave to play - The Ear Rings of Pizarro Could not obtain for me - I envy Light - that Wakes Him - And Bells - that boldly ring To tell Him it is Noon, abroad -

53. Titanic Operas: Sharon Olds I THINK EMILY DICKINSON WOULD HAVE BEEN POLITICAL TODAY by sharon olds.Page 2. I connect with her as a passionate woman. As an obsessed woman. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/olds2.html

I THINK EMILY DICKINSON WOULD HAVE BEEN POLITICAL TODAY by Sharon Olds Page 2 I connect with her as a passionate woman. As an obsessed woman. I love her images also. My hand shakes today in special honor of emily, but it always shakes whenever I read poems. It's a little fear and a lot of excitement. This one was always curious to me. My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away - And now We roam in Sovreign Woods - And now We hunt the Doe - And every time I speak for Him - The Mountains straight reply - And do I smile, such cordial light Upon the Valley glow - It is as a Vesuvian face Had let its pleasure through - And when at Night - Our good Day done - I guard My Master's Head - 'Tis better than the Eider-Duck's Deep Pillow - to have shared - To foe of His - I'm deadly foe - None stir the second time - On whom I lay a Yellow Eye - Or an emphatic Thumb - Though I than He - may longer live He longer must - than I - For I have but the power to kill, Without - the power to die - (JP 754) previous page next page about the author table of contents ... search the archives Last updated on March 10, 2000

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55. Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell sharon olds, The Gold Cell (Knopf, 1987). The rites of passage, the cycle of lifeare treated with startling candor and beauty in the poetry of sharon olds. http://www.rambles.net/olds_goldcell.html

Sharon Olds, The Gold Cell (Knopf, 1987) The rites of passage, the cycle of life are treated with startling candor and beauty in the poetry of Sharon Olds. Her third book, published in 1987, is titled The Gold Cell Confessional in nature, her poetry is masterfully crafted. Her talents have won her much praise. Her poems reflect a strong sense of family. Relationships between parents and children figure prominently in her books. Embracing life, her poems trace its course, from childhood to first love to sex to miscarriage to birth to injury and, finally, death. Death and life are forever intertwined in her work. In her poems she honors the dead, public victims of crucifixion, suicide, torture, execution and abandonment. She also remembers the quiet, private deaths of relatives, friends and lovers. Olds is a poet for whom nothing is sacred ... or perhaps, for whom all is sacred. She treats her subjects with such honesty and power, that what might have seemed vulgar or cruel, becomes breathtakingly beautiful. A photograph of a starving girl, approaching puberty, moves her as does the moment of her own first menstruation. A scene in an office of sex-change operations exhibits loss as does the funeral ceremony of her children's gerbils. Child abuse evokes an intensity of hatred that is also found in chronicling political crimes. She writes of life in its entirety; the good with the bad. She feels free to discuss anything.

56. APR Mar/Apr 2002 Vol. 31/No. 2 | Sharon Olds The American Poetry Review sharon olds While He Told Me. sharon olds teachesin New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program. http://www.aprweb.org/issues/mar02/olds.html

Sharon Olds While He Told Me My First Hour That hour, I was most myself. I had shrugged my mother slowly off, I lay there taking my first breaths, as if the air of the room was blowing me like a bubble. All I had to do was go out along the line of my gaze and back, feeling gravity, silk, the pressure of the air a caress, smelling on myself her creamy blood. The air was softly touching my skin and mouth, entering me and drawing forth the little sighs I did not know as mine. I was not afraid. I lay in the quiet and looked, and did the wordless thought, my mind was getting its oxygen direct, the rich mix by mouth. I hated no one. I gazed and gazed, and everything was interesting, I was free, not yet in love, I did not belong to anyone, I had drunk no milk yetno one had my heart. I was not very human. I did not know there was anyone else. I lay like a god, for an hour, then they came for me and took me to my mother. Last Hour Sharon Olds teaches in New York University's Graduate Creative Writing Program. The Unswept Room

57. Sharon Olds reviewers Links Email NHI Review Web design by Gerald England Thispage last updated 9th May 2002. sharon olds BLOOD, TIN, STRAW. http://www.nhi.clara.net/bs0263.htm

NEW HOPE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW ON-LINE SHARON OLDS: BLOOD, TIN, STRAW Jonathan Cape 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road London UK ISBN 224 06089 9 visit Jonathan Cape's Website Anthologies. Books. Audio. ... Email NHI Review Web design by Gerald England This page last updated: 9th May 2002. SHARON OLDS: BLOOD, TIN, STRAW - blood, tin, straw - what they were made of was to be used to kill them These lines come from the poem CULTURE AND RELIGION where a child remembers two influential films, making an astonishing link between the Crucifixion and the Wizard of Oz Olds has the ability to speak metaphorically yet clearly about experience that could be interpreted as highly personal. But she refuses the Romantic myth of the autobiographical poet as she stated on BBC Radio 3 on 7 July 2000. I leave a lot out, most of my poems you never see, if I find them too stuck or whining. Unless the I works in some way for the reader, unless the reader can slip into that I , have some experience through that I , then the poem is not worthwhile, it's more like a diary entry in rhyme In this, her sixth book, Olds writes with even greater lyrical punch. Her previous poems were remarkably honest in their portrayal of the physical reactions of women. Here she writes about her father with more understanding:

58. Fertile Heart Poetry Sharon Olds The Unborn By sharon olds Sometimes I can almost see, around our heads, Like gnatsaround a streetlight in summer, The children we could have, The glimmer of http://www.fertileheart.com/poetry/p.po.olds.html

The Unborn By Sharon Olds Sometimes I can almost see, around our heads, Like gnats around a streetlight in summer, The children we could have, The glimmer of them. Sometimes I feel them waiting, dozing In some antechamber - servants, half- Listening for the bell. Sometimes I see them lying like love letters In the Dead Letter Office And sometimes, like tonight, by some black Second sight I can feel just one of them Standing on the edge of a cliff by the sea In the dark, stretching its arms out Desperately to me. From the Satan Says collection Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press Other poems: What Do I Do My Lord?, by Julia Indichova Psalm #4, by Jason Shulman Psalm #10, by Jason Shulman The Unborn, by Sharon Olds ... Looking at My Daughter's Baby Picture, by Julia Indichova The alternative treatments discussed on this website are not intended to replace the advice of a health professional. They are shared with the understanding that each individual accepts full responsibiliy for her/his own well being. Updated Fertile Heart

59. Fertile Heart Poetry Sharon Olds www.FertileHeart.com. http://www.fertileheart.com/poetry/p.po.shulman10.html

Psalm # 10 From Tefillin Psalms By Jason Shulman I see Your Light in my daughter And my daughter's Light in You. Her sweet thinking is like Yours when you created the World. Her movement toward subtlety Is sure, as when you gave Abraham the Ram. Her Light must be pleasing to You, Like a sweet fragrance in a Forest after a rain, rising up And renewing You. It must remind You of why You made us; for the pleasure Of smell and thought, fine Heart and sacred body. I watch her daily finding You In all the decisions she makes; To stand for this, To be against that, to go there, To not go there. She is molding her form in Your image And when I look up at You I see her sweet smile On Your Lips... Published by A Society of Souls Press 1999 For a copy of Teffilin Psalms contact www.kabbalah.org Other poems: What Do I Do My Lord?, by Julia Indichova Psalm #4, by Jason Shulman Psalm #10, by Jason Shulman The Unborn, by Sharon Olds ... Looking at My Daughter's Baby Picture, by Julia Indichova The alternative treatments discussed on this website are not intended to replace the advice of a health professional. They are shared with the understanding that each individual accepts full responsibiliy for her/his own well being. Updated Fertile Heart

60. The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry - Judges For Griffin Prize 2003 Back to top. sharon olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco, and educatedat Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/judges/intro.html

Griffin Prize Judges 2003 The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry is pleased to announce the judges for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2003. Click here to read the text of the announcement. Michael Longley Sharon Olds Sharon Thesen MICHAEL LONGLEY was born in Belfast in 1939 and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and Trinity College, Dublin, where he read Classics. In 1991 he retired from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, where he initiated the programmes for literature, the traditional arts and arts-in-education. His collections include Gorse Fires (1991), which won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, The Ghost Orchid (1995) which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and The Weather in Japan (2000), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Irish Times Literature Prize for Poetry. His Selected Poems Back to top SHARON OLDS was born in 1942 in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living , was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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