{"product_id":"one-secret-thing-paperback","title":"One Secret Thing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon Olds\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful collection of poems about family and grief--by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called \"a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy--sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger--public and private--illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. \u003ci\u003eOne Secret Thing\u003c\/i\u003e is charged throughout with Sharon Olds's characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe doctor on the phone was young, maybe on his\u003cbr\u003efirst rotation in the emergency room.\u003cbr\u003eOn the ancient boarding-school radio, \u003cbr\u003ein the attic hall, the announcer had given my\u003cbr\u003eboyfriend's name as one of two\u003cbr\u003ebrought to the hospital after the sunrise\u003cbr\u003eservice, the egg-hunt, the crash--one of them\u003cbr\u003ecritical, one of them dead. I was looking at the\u003cbr\u003estairwell banisters, at their lathing, \u003cbr\u003ethe necks and knobs like joints and bones, \u003cbr\u003ethe varnish here thicker here thinner--I had said\u003cbr\u003eWhich one of them died, and now the world was\u003cbr\u003ean ant's world: the huge crumb of each\u003cbr\u003esecond thrown, somehow, up onto\u003cbr\u003emy back, and the young, tired voice\u003cbr\u003esaid my fresh love's name. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003efrom \"Easter 1960\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco. Her poetry has been chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.2 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 30, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42686267260991,"sku":"9780375711770","price":26.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a08a5600edcbc82c4fb722ab8ffd7407.webp?v=1764974420","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/one-secret-thing-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}