Sharon Olds | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Sharon Olds.

Sharon Olds | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 3 pages of analysis & critique of Sharon Olds.
This section contains 687 words
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SOURCE: A review of The Gold Cell, in The Women's Review of Books, Vol. IV, No. 12, September, 1987, pp. 6-7.

Wakoski is an American poet, essayist, critic, and educator. In the following excerpt from a review of The Gold Cell, she remarks that Olds's poems exhibit a fascination with destruction, suffering, and sexuality.

Reading The Gold Cell gives some of the same pleasures you get in the doctor's office reading issues of National Geographic. It makes the news of the world interesting with its award-winning photography and glossy pages filled with articles about esoteric aspects of this earth and our daily lives. Olds' language of physical image and metaphor is never illusory (seldom allusive); it is the perfect self-contained language that the New Critics talked about. Her subject-matter is always family, though it is finally "the family of man" which is her theme.

 The boy and I face each...

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This section contains 687 words
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Buy the Critical Review by Diane Wakoski
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