{"product_id":"arias-paperback","title":"Arias - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon Olds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFollowing her recent \u003ci\u003eOdes, \u003c\/i\u003ethe Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us radical new poems of intimate life and political conscience, of race and class and a mother's violence.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe atom bomb, \u003ci\u003e Breaking Bad, \u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and England's T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012 collection, \u003ci\u003eStag's Leap, \u003c\/i\u003e she is the author of eleven previous books of poetry and the winner of many other awards and honors, including the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first book, \u003ci\u003eSatan Says\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead and the Living, \u003c\/i\u003e which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. \u003ci\u003eThe Father \u003c\/i\u003ewas short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize, and \u003ci\u003eThe Unswept Room\u003c\/i\u003e 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 outreach programs, among them the writing workshop for residents of Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and for the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725588664383,"sku":"9781524711603","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5676c0829f50886d8acf7b8411c328b6.webp?v=1765107164","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/arias-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}