{"product_id":"one-secret-thing-sharon-olds-9780375711770","title":"One Secret Thing","description":"\u003cb\u003eA powerful collection of poems about family and grief--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).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy--sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger--public and private--illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. \u003ci\u003eOne Secret Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is charged throughout with Sharon Olds's characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe doctor on the phone was young, maybe on his\u003cbr\u003efirst rotation in the emergency room.\u003cbr\u003eOn the ancient boarding-school radio, \u003cbr\u003ein the attic hall, the announcer had given my\u003cbr\u003eboyfriend's name as one of two\u003cbr\u003ebrought to the hospital after the sunrise\u003cbr\u003eservice, the egg-hunt, the crash--one of them\u003cbr\u003ecritical, one of them dead. I was looking at the\u003cbr\u003estairwell banisters, at their lathing, \u003cbr\u003ethe necks and knobs like joints and bones, \u003cbr\u003ethe varnish here thicker here thinner--I had said\u003cbr\u003eWhich one of them died, and now the world was\u003cbr\u003ean ant's world: the huge crumb of each\u003cbr\u003esecond thrown, somehow, up onto\u003cbr\u003emy back, and the young, tired voice\u003cbr\u003esaid my fresh love's name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efrom \"Easter 1960\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sharon Olds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375711775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375711770\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 09\/30\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/21\/2008 pg. 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2008 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2008 pg. 74","brand":"Sharon Olds","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919615262975,"sku":"9780375711770","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_1ebff19a-c2c1-4813-9b81-b6f2925d3c3e.jpg?v=1680810373","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/one-secret-thing-sharon-olds-9780375711770","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}