Sharon Olds | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Sharon Olds.

Sharon Olds | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 22 pages of analysis & critique of Sharon Olds.
This section contains 3,528 words
(approx. 12 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Critical Review by Carolyne Wright

SOURCE: A review of The Dead and the Living, in The Iowa Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter, 1985, pp. 151-61.

Wright is an American poet, critic, and educator. In the following review of The Dead and the Living, she praises Olds's use of unadorned, concrete description to evoke sympathy and love in scenes of domestic violence and trauma.

This second book [The Dead and the Living] by Sharon Olds, the 1983 winner of the Lamont Award, is a powerful follow-up to Satan Says, fulfilling all the expectations that first book raised. Grace Paley has said in an interview that "the act of illumination is political … the act of bringing justice into the world a little bit": by bringing into the light lives that have been (to use Paley's words) "unseen, unknown, in darkness," Olds has both revealed and redeemed the most painful portions of her private and public lives, and celebrated...

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This section contains 3,528 words
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Buy the Critical Review by Carolyne Wright
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