Satan Says by Sharon Olds

Satan Says by Sharon Olds

First published in 1980, the classic poetry of Sharon Olds' Satan Says was introduced into college courses twenty years ago, and still maintains a wide usage today. Few first books have the power or vigor of design of Satan Says. Marilyn Hacker described it as "a daring and elegant first book. This is a poetry which affirms and redeems the art."

The poems are constructed with craft and care; the volatility of childhood seemingly is tempered with controlled retrospection and craft. . . Olds's voice is original. It is even savage at times, but always controlled. Recommended for all colleges and libraries." - Choice "Sharon Olds's poetry has the intensity and power to move the reader, whether her subject be personal family life or political events." -American Poetry Review "This is a powerful and impressive first book." -Booklist "Olds' voice is consistently intense. In one poem after another, the spareness and bluntness of the language emphasize the violent sensuality of the images." -Home Planet News

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently Balladz,a finalist for the National Book Award; Arias, short-listed for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize; Odes; and Stag’s Leap, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize. Her other honors include the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first book, Satan Says, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second, The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. The Father was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped to found the NYU workshop program for residents of Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. She lives in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780822953142
ISBN 10	0822953145
Title	Satan Says
Author	Sharon Olds
Series	Pitt Poetry Series
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Pittsburgh Press
Year published	1980-06-30
Number of pages	72
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.