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The Father: A Daughter Chronicles the Events of her Father's Illness and Death in a Sequence of Poems
Sharon Olds (Author)
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Alfred A. Knopf
· Paperback
The Father: A Daughter Chronicles the Events of her Father's Illness and Death in a Sequence of Poems - Sharon Olds
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Synopsis "The Father: A Daughter Chronicles the Events of her Father's Illness and Death in a Sequence of Poems"
The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry. The ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor—and without bitterness.The deep pain in The Father arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Old’s work find here their most powerful expression.
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The book is written in English.
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