Sharon Olds is an American poet and teacher. Her first collection of poems, Satan Says (University of Pittsburg Press, 1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her other collections include Stag’s Leap (Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She holds numerous honors including a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Poetry
Winter 1981
The Call
(Photograph taken in Chungking, 1941, after a panic in an air-raid shelter that left 4,000 dead) There is no end to the beauty of the body, even here, on […]
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The Call
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Winter 1981, Vol. III, No. 1 Photograph taken in Chungking, 1941, after a panic in an air-raid shelter that left 4,000 dead There is […]