Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
Sharon Oldsis an American poet. Olds has been the recipient of many awards including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980 She currently teaches creative writing at New York University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
teaching nyu community
The teaching is very rewarding, and very time-consuming, and very exhausting. But it's wonderful. The community here at NYU is very precious to me.
anger bother connection fact feelings sorrow
The fact that there was a lot of anger and sorrow and a sense of connection to destructive feelings in "The Father" doesn't bother me.
job time
I was very afraid that I wouldn't be able to do this job well. And the time never came back.
essays fine gives hyde lewis poets role society writers written
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful.
almost time whom works writers written
I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, by the time I see that it's a poem, it's almost written in my head somewhere.
writing wells accurate
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
dream memories ideas
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.
quitting said i-quit
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
thinking years air
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance and in life, to breathe deeply and to take in more air than we usually take in.
vision puff crafts
Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
dark curves pouring
... sometimes I can feel it, the way we are pouring slowly toward a curve and around it through something dark and soft, and we are bound to each other.
baseball men fans
One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.
may force creatures
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.