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SHARON OLDS

Poet Analysis

Poems found: 453

19

1954

35/10

35/10

49 1/2

5 CENTS A PEEK

ADOLESCENCE

AFTER MAKING LOVE IN WINTER

AFTER MAKING LOVE IN WINTER

AFTER MAKING LOVE, WINTER SOLSTICE

AFTER PUNISHMENT WAS DONE WITH ME

AFTER THE RAPE IN OUR BUILDING

AIRPORT HOTEL

ALCATRAZ

AM AND AM NOT

ANIMAL MUSIC

APRIL, NEW HAMPSHIRE

ARMOR

ARMOR

ASPIC AND BUTTERMILK

ASPIC AND BUTTERMILK

AT HOME

AT THE BAY

AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYZED

AT THE HOSPITAL FOR THE PARALYZED

ATTEMPTED BANQUET

BABYSITTER

BACCHANAL IN MEMORY

BAROMETER

BATHING THE NEW BORN

BATHROBE

BEAST

BED

BEYOND HARM

BEYOND HARM

BIBLE STUDY: 71 B.C.E.

BIRTHDAY POEM FOR MY GRANDMOTHER LOTTIE BEDA MACLEAN

BODY REMEMBERS

BONDING

BOULDER CREEK

BURNED DIARY

BY EARTH

BY FIRE

BY FIRE

CAMBRIDGE ELEGY

CAST

CELIBACY AT TWENTY

CELIBACY AT TWENTY

CEREMONY OF BURIAL

CHAMBER THICKET

CHERRY

CHRISTIAN CHILD

CHRISTIAN CHILD

CLASP

CO-ED FOUND

COMING HOME AFTER VACATION

COMING OF AGE, 1966

CONNOISSEUSE OF SLUGS

COOL BREEZE

COULDN'T

CRAZY

CULTURE AND RELIGION

DAY THEY TIED ME UP

DEAD BODY ITSELF

DEAR HEART

DEAR HEART

DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE

DEFENSE

DIAGNOSIS

DIRTY MEMORIES

DRAGONS

DROWNING

EARLIEST MEMORY

EARLIEST MEMORY

EARLY IMAGES OF HEAVEN

EARLY IMAGES OF HEAVEN

ECSTASY

ECSTASY

ELDER SISTER

ELECTRICITY SAVIOR

ELOPEMENT

EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD

EMILY DICKINSON'S WRITING TABLE IN HER BEDROOM AT THE HOMESTEAD

EMPIRE STATE BUILDING AS THE MOON

ENCHANTMENT

ENCOUNTER

EVEN NOW

EVERY TIME

FACTORS

FALLS

FEARED DROWNED

FERRYER

FIFTY MOTHERS

FIRE ESCAPE

FIRE ESCAPE

FIRST

FIRST BIRTH

FIRST BOYFRIEND

FIRST FORMAL

FIRST HOUR

FIRST LOVE

FIRST NIGHT

FIRST SEX

FIRST SEX

FIRST THANKSGIVING

FIRST THANKSGIVING

FIRST WEEKS

FISH OIL

FISH OIL

FISH STORY

FISH STORY

FISHING OFF NOVA SCOTIA

FIVE-YEAR-OLD-BOY

FOR AND AGAINST KNOWLEDGE

FOR AND AGAINST KNOWLEDGE

FOR MY DAUGHTER

FOR MY MOTHER

FOR MY MOTHER

FORGIVENESS

FORTY YEARS LATER

FORTY YEARS LATER

FORTY-ONE, ALONE, NO GERBIL

FORTY-ONE, ALONE, NO GERBIL

FRONTIS NULLA FIDES

FROSTED ELFIN

FULL SUMMER

GEOGRAPHY

GIFT

GIRL

GLASS

GOOD WILL

GREED AND AGGRESSION

GREED AND AGGRESSION

GREY GIRL

GUILD

HAIRS

HAND

HE COMES FOR THE JEWISH FAMILY, 1942

HEAVEN TO BE

HER FIRST WEEK

HER FIRST WEEK

HER LAST AUGUST

HER LIST

HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR

HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR

HIS COSTUME

HIS FATHER'S CADAVER

HIS SMELL

HIS SMELL

HIS STILLNESS

HIS TERROR

HISTORY OF MEDICINE

HOMAGE

HOUR

HOUSEWIVES WATCHING MORNING TV

I AM THE SHRINK'S WIFE

I AS YOU

I CANNOT FORGET THE WOMAN IN THE MIRROR

I COULD NOT TELL

I COULD NOT TELL

I GO BACK TO MAY 1937

I GO BACK TO MAY 1937

I LOVE IT WHEN

I SEE MY GIRL

I WANTED TO BE THERE WHEN MY FATHER DIED

IDEOGRAPHS

IDEOGRAPHS

IMMERSION COIL

IMMIGRANTS

IN THE CELL

IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END

IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END

IN WHAT DIRECTION OR WHEN

IN WHAT DIRECTION OR WHEN

INDICTMENT OF SENIOR OFFICERS

INDISPENSIBILITY OF THE EYES

INFINITE BLISS

INFINITE BLISS

ISSUES

JAPANESE-AMERICAN FARMHOUSE, CALIFORNIA, 1942

JUNIOR LIFESAVING

KILLERS

KILLING MY SISTER'S FISH

KNOW-NOTHING

KNOW-NOTHING

KNOWING

KNOWN TO BE LEFT

LADY BUG

LAMENT

LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG

LAST BIRTHDAY AT HOME

LAST DAY

LAST HOUR

LAST NIGHT

LAST NIGHT

LAST WORDS

LATE

LATE POEM TO MY FATHER

LEARNER

LEAVING THE ISLAND

LENINGRAD CEMETERY, WINTER OF 1941

LENINGRAD CEMETERY, WINTER OF 1941

LIFE WITH SICK KIDS

LIFE WITH SICK KIDS

LIFELONG

LISP

LOOK

LOVE BETWEEN US

LOVE FOSSIL

LOVE IN BLOODLINE

LOVE OBJECT

LOVE'S EYESIGHT

MAIDEN NAME

MAKARIS

MAKING LOVE

MAKING LOVE

MATTHEWS AH UM

May-68

May-68

MILK-BUBBLE RUINS

MOLE

MOM AS COMET

MOM AS COMET

MOMENT OF MY FATHER'S DEATH

MONARCHS

MONARCHS

MONEY

MONTH OF JUNE: 13 1/2

MORNING AFTER KRISTALLNACHT

MORTAL ETERNAL

MORTAL ONE

MOTHER

MOTHER

MOTHER AT THE END OF JUNE

MOUNT MORIAH, 4000 B.C.E.

MRS. KRIKORIAN

MRS. KRIKORIAN

MY FATHER SPEAKS TO ME FROM THE DEAD

MY FATHER'S DIARY (1)

MY FATHER'S DIARY (2)

MY FATHER'S DIARY (2)

MY FIRST HOUR

MY FIRST WEEKS

MY MOTHER'S COLLEGE

MY MOTHER'S PANSIES

MY MOTHER'S PANSIES

MY SON THE MAN

MY SON THE MAN

NATIVE

NATURAL HISTORY

NECKING

NECKLACE

NEW MOTHER

NEW STRANGER

NIGHT POEM TO MY MOTHER

NIGHT TERRORS

NURSE WHITMAN

NURSE WHITMAN

ON THE SUBWAY

ONCE

ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS PARTY

OPENING

ORDEAL

OTHER LIFE

OUTDOOR SHOWER

OUTSIDE THE OPERATING ROOM OF THE SEX-CHANGE DOCTOR

PAJAMAS

PARENT VISITING DAY

PARENTS' DAY

PARENTS' DAY

PARTS OF THE BODY

PEDIATRICIAN RETIRES

PEELED GRAPES

PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GIRL

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY OF THE FALL RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

PHYSICS

PILGRIMAGE

PLANNED CHILD

POEM TO OUR SON AFTER A HIGH FEVER

POEM TO THE READER

POEMS FOR THE BREASTS

PORTRAIT OF A DAUGHTER

POSSESSIVE

PRAYER

PRAYER DURING A TIME MY SON IS HAVING SEIZURES

PRAYER DURING THAT TIME

PREPOSITIONS

PRIMITIVE

PROMISE

PROTESTOR

PULL

QUAKE THEORY

QUAKE THEORY

QUEST

RACE

RACE RIOT, TULSA, 1921

READING YOU

REMEDY

REPUBLICAN LIVING ROOMS

REQUEST

RISING DAUGHTER

RITE OF PASSAGE

RITES OF PASSAGE

SATAN SAYS

SATURN

SATURN

SCHOOLHOUSE BELL

SEEKER

SEVENTH BIRTHDAY OF THE FIRST CHILD

SEVENTH BIRTHDAY OF THE FIRST CHILD

SEX AT COLLEGE (CELIBACY)

SEX WITHOUT LOVE

SEX WITHOUT LOVE

SHORE

SIBLINGS

SIGN OF SATURN

SILENCE, WITH TWO TEXTS

SISTERS OF SEXUAL TREASURE

SLEEP SUITE

SLOWLY HE STARTS

SOCKS

SOLITARY

SOLO

SOMETIMES

SOUND

SOURCE

SPACE HEATER

SPONGE

SPOUSES WAKING UP IN THE HOTEL MIRROR

SSSHH

SSSHH

STAG'S LEAP

STAG'S LEAP

STATION

STILL LIFE

STILL LIFE IN LANDSCAPE

STILL LIFE IN LANDSCAPE

STRUGGLE

SUMMER SOLSTICE, NEW YORK CITY

SUMMER SOLSTICE, NEW YORK CITY

SUMMER-CAMP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB

SUNDAY NIGHT

SUNDAY NIGHT IN THE CITY

SWIMMER

SWIMMING RACE

TAKE THE I OUT

TAKE THE I OUT

TALK

TALKERS

THAT MOMENT

THAT YEAR

THE ABANDONED NEWBORN

THE BABYSITTER

THE CAST

THE CLASP

THE CONNOISSEUSE OF SLUGS

THE COULDN'T

THE DAY THEY TIED ME UP

THE DEATH OF MARILYN MONROE

THE ELDER SISTER

THE ENCHANTMENT

THE FEAR OF ONE'S SELF

THE FERRYER

THE FLURRY

THE FOOD-THIEF

THE GLASS

THE GUILD

THE ISSUES

THE KNOWING

THE LANGUAGE OF THE BRAG

THE LAST BIRTHDAY AT HOME

THE LATEST INJURY

THE LEARNER

THE LEGLESS FIGHTER PILOT

THE MEAL

THE MONTH OF JUNE: 13 1/2

THE MORTAL ONE

THE ONE GIRL AT THE BOYS PARTY

THE PLANNED CHILD

THE POPE'S PENIS

THE POSSESSIVE

THE PROMISE

THE PROTESTOR

THE PULL

THE RACE

THE SHYNESS

THE SUMMER-CANP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB

THE TALK

THE UNJUSTLY PUNISHED CHILD

THE VICTIMS

THE WEDDING VOW

THE WINDOW

THEN

THESE DAYS

THINGS OF THIS WORLD

THINGS THAT ARE WORSE THAN DEATH

THIS HOUR

TIME-TRAVEL

TO A POET

TO MY FATHER

TO MY HUSBAND

TO OUR MISCARRIED ONE, AGE THIRTY NOW

TOPOGRAPHY

TOPOGRAPHY

TOTH FARRY

TOUSLED DARLING

TRANSFORMED BOY

TRICKS

TRUE BLUE

TRUE LOVE

TRUE LOVE

TRY-OUTS

TRYING TO BELIEVE IN MY FATHER'S DEATH

TWELVE YEARS OLD

ULTRASOUND

UNBORN

UNDERLIFE

UNJUSTLY PUNISHED CHILD

URN

VICTIMS

VIRGINAL ORGY

VISION

VISION

VISITING MY MOTHER'S COLLEGE

VOGUE SHOOT

VOICES

WAITING

WAITING ROOM

WARRIOR: 5TH GRADE

WATCHERS: FILM

WATCHERS: STILL

WEDDING VOW

WELLSPRING

WEST

WESTERN WIND

WHAT I LIKED ABOUT IT

WHAT IF GOD

WHAT IF GOD

WHAT IS THE EARTH?

WHAT IT MEANT

WHEN

WHEN IT COMES

WHEN THE DEAD ASK MY FATHER ABOUT ME

WHERE WILL LOVE GO?

WHILE HE TOLD ME

WINDOW

YOU KINDLY

YOUNG MOTHERS (1)

YOUNG MOTHERS (2)

YOUNG MOTHERS (4)

YOUNG MOTHERS (5)

ZNAMENSKAYA SQUARE, LENINGRAD, 1941

ZNAMENSKAYA SQUARE, LENINGRAD, 1941



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