Arias

Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother's violence.

The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, Rasputin, the cervix, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique harmonics and moral logic, as Olds stands center stage to sing of sexual pleasure and chance wisdom, and faces the tragic life of our nation and our planet. "I cannot say I did not ask / to be born," begins one aria, which considers how, with what actions, with what thirst, we each ask for a turn, and receive our portion on earth. Olds delivers these pieces with all the passion, anguish, and solo force that make a great performance, in the process enlarging the soul of her reader.

Dupa recentele sale Odes, poetul castigator al Premiului Pulitzer ne ofera noi poezii radical noi de viata intima si constiinta politica, de rasa si clasa si violenta unei mame. Bomba atomica, Breaking Bad, Rasputin, colul uterin, intoarcerea mamei sale din morti : inegalabila Sharon Olds reia inca o data un subiect atat de dificil si obisnuit, evaziv si peste tot.