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One Secret Thing Book
Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energyâ??sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and dangerâ??public and privateâ??illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. One Secret Thing is charged throughout with Sharon Oldsâ??s characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power.The doctor on the phone was young, maybe on hisfirst … read more...
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