{"product_id":"balladz-sharon-olds-9781524711610","title":"Balladz","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Songs from our era of communal grief and reckoning--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\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharon Olds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1524711616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781524711610\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 7.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2022 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2022 pg. 12\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/04\/2022 pg. 1","brand":"Sharon Olds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994714767615,"sku":"9781524711610","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d568f514-2858-4ceb-bbed-ee68234a08d9.jpg?v=1683331766","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/balladz-sharon-olds-9781524711610","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}