Balladz
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022].
Physical Desc
xiv, 171 pages ; 25 cm
Status
Downtown Lansing - 2nd Floor-Non-Fiction
811.54 Olds
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811.54 Olds
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2022].
Format
Book
Language
English
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"At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, and at its center boasts what she calls Amherst Balladz (whose syntax honors Emily Dickinson: "she was our Girl – our Woman – / Man enough – for me") and many more in her own contemporary, long-flowing-sentence rhythm. Olds sings of her childhood, young womanhood, and maturity all mixed up together, seeing an early lover in the one who is about to buried; seeing her whiteness, seeing her privilege; seeing her mother (whom her readers will recognize) "flushed exalted at Punishment time"; seeing how we've spoiled the earth but carrying a stray indoor spider carefully back out to the garden. It is Olds's gift to us that in the richly detailed exposure of her sorrows she can still elegize songbirds, her true kin, and write that heaven comes here in life, not after it. --Publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Olds, S. (2022). Balladz (First edition.). Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Olds, Sharon. 2022. Balladz. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Olds, Sharon. Balladz Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Olds, Sharon. Balladz First edition., Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
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