Gold Cell
Published on 5. December 2012
112 pages
978-0-307-76083-8 (ISBN)
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A new collection by the much praised poet whose second book THE DEAD AND THE LIVING, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Sharon Olds
The Gold Cell
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02/1987
Alfred A. Knopf
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SHARON OLDS was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book of poems, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the N.Y.U. workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. More recently she was awarded the Walt Whitman Citation for Merit by the New York State Writers Institute of the State University of New York. The citation officially invested her with the title of New York State Poet for 1998-2000.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part One
- Summer Solstice, New York City
- On the Subway
- The Abandoned Newborn
- In the Cell
- The Twin
- The Food-Thief
- The Girl
- Outside the Operating Room of the Sex-Change Doctor
- The Solution
- The Pope's Penis
- When
- Part Two
- I Go Back to May 1937
- Saturn
- What if God
- History: 13
- The Meal
- Alcatraz
- San Francisco
- Looking at My Father
- Why My Mother Made Me
- Now I Lay Me
- The Chute
- The Blue Dress
- Late Poem to My Father
- June 24
- After 37 Years My Mother Apologizes for My Childhood
- 201 Upper Terrace, San Francisco
- Part Three
- California Swimming Pool
- First Boyfriend
- First Sex
- First Love
- Cambridge Elegy: (for Henry Averell Gerry, 1941-60)
- Still Life
- Greed and Aggression
- It
- Topography
- A Woman in Heat Wiping Herself
- The Premonition
- I Cannot Forget the Woman in the Mirror
- Love in Blood Time
- This
- Part Four
- The Moment the Two Worlds Meet
- Little Things
- The Latest Injury
- The Quest
- Our Son and the Water Shortage
- Liddy's Orange
- When My Son Is Sick
- The Prayer
- The Signs
- I See My Girl
- The Green Shirt
- Gerbil Funeral
- Mouse Elegy
- The Month of June: 13 ½
- Boy Out in the World
- Life with Sick Kids
- That Moment
- Looking at Them Asleep
- A Note About the Author
