Best Sharon Olds Poems
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1.
Virginal Orgy
29 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
2.
Killing My Sister's Fish
13 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
3.
After the Rape in Our Building
8 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
4.
His Costume
7 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
5.
Early Images of Heaven
6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"It amazed me that the shapes of penises,/
their sizes, and angles, everything about them/ was the way I would have designed them if I had/ invented them... as if/ I remembered coming through it, like God/ the Father all around me."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 5 points
6.
Last Words, Death Row, Circa 2030
4 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
7.
Royal Beauty Bright
3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"... and when the morphine took her,/ I sang her down--Star of wonder,/ Star of night.
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
8.
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
9.
One Secret Thing
2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
10.
"Last NIght
1 point - added 14 years ago by guest -
11.
Full Summer
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
12.
The Last Evening
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
13.
Freezer
1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
14.
Once
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
15.
First
0 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
16.
The Protestor
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"Which meant you'd decided/ to go to jail, a slender guy of/ 21, which meant you'd decided to be/ raped rather than to kill, if it was their/ life or your ass, it was your ass."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
17.
At Home
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
18.
After Punishment Was Done with Me
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
19.
19
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
20.
The Language of the Brag
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"I have done what you wanted to do, Walt Whitman,/ Allen Ginsberg, I have done this thing,/ I and the other women this exceptional/ act with exceptional heroic body,/ this giving birth, this glistening verb,/ and I am putting my proud American boast/ right here with the others."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
21.
Adolescence
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
22.
Frosted Elfin
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
23.
What It Meant
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
24.
The Given
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko - 1 comment
Comments:
"As I held her, in my sleeping bag, I could/ feel love build and build in me,/ between my legs, where we were pressed together,/ until my life seemed to burst, there,/ like a breaking heart."
Added 15 years ago by danielleblasko, 0 points
25.
Paterfamilias
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
26.
Men's Singles, 1952
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
27.
War
-1 point - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
28.
You Kindly
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
29.
Wooden Ode
-2 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
30.
Culture and Religion
-3 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
31.
1954
-6 points - added 15 years ago by danielleblasko -
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