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Sharon Olds
PoetryInterviewed by: Rebekah Presson
Catalog Number: 19930101
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Sharon Olds' poetry "is remarkable for its candor, its eroticism, and its power to move," says one critic. In this program Olds reads from The Father, her book about the death of a father, and talks about writing "apparently personal" poems.
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Hadara Bar-Nadav and Kathryn Nuernberger
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