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The Dead and the Living
Title:
The Dead and the Living
JLCTITLE245:
Poems by Sharon Olds.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.
Physical Description:
x, 80 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780394530482

9780394715636
General Note:
"The Lamont poetry selection for 1983"--Cover.

"A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.
Genre:
Contents:
Poems for the Dead -- Public -- Ideographs -- Photograph of the Girl -- Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 -- Portrait of a Child -- Nevsky Prospekt -- The Death of Marilyn Monroe -- The Issues -- Aesthetics of the Shah -- Things That Are Worse Than Death -- Private -- The Guild -- Grandmother Love Poem -- The Eye -- Birthday Poem for My Grandmother -- Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once -- Farewell Poem -- The Winter After Your Death -- Miscarriage -- The End -- Best Friends -- Absent One -- Poems for the Living -- The Family -- Possessed -- The Victims -- The Forms -- The Departure -- Burn Center -- The Ideal Father -- Fate -- My Father Snoring -- The Moment -- My Father's Breasts -- The Takers -- The Pact -- The Derelict -- Late Speech with My Brother -- The Elder Sister -- The Men -- The Connoisseuse of Slugs -- Poem to My First Lover -- New Mother -- The Line -- The Fear of Oneself -- Poem to My Husband from My Father's Daughter -- Sex Without Love -- Ecstasy -- The Children -- Exclusive -- Six-Year-Old Boy -- Eggs -- Size and Sheer Will -- For My Daughter -- Rite of Passage -- Relinquishment -- Son -- Pre-Adolescent in Spring -- Blue Son -- Pajamas -- The Killer -- The Sign of Saturn -- Armor -- 35/10 -- The Missing Boy -- Bread -- Bestiary -- The One Girl at the Boys' Party -- The Couple.
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