{"product_id":"olds-sharon-fatherpb","title":"Olds, Sharon: The Father","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnopf, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 21, 1992\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: A searing sequence of poems about a daughter's vision of a father's illness and death--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called \"a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down\" (San Francisco Chronicle).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Father chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor--and without bitterness.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Old's work find here their most powerful expression.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40679349714967,"sku":"9780679740025","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/images_94a009ca-3039-40f6-9e05-cbeefcd406e7.jpg?v=1700179835","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/olds-sharon-fatherpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}