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Book

Odes

Call Number

  • 811 O44.8 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.

Physical Description

xii, 108 pages ; 25 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Summary

"Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collection Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds gives us a stunning book of odes. Opening with the powerful and tender "Ode to the Hymen," Olds addresses and embodies, in this age-old poetic form, many aspects of love and gender and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the body and its structures and pleasures. The poems extend parts of her narrative as a daughter, mother, wife, lover, friend, and poet of conscience that will be familiar from earlier collections, each episode and memory burnished by the wisdom and grace and humor of looking back"--Jacket.

Contents

  • Ode to the hymen
  • Ode to the clitoris
  • Ode to the penis
  • Ode of Broken Loyalty
  • Wind ode
  • Ode to my whiteness
  • Amaryllis ode
  • Ode to my sister
  • Ode to the condom
  • Ode to the tampon
  • Hip replacement ode
  • Ode with a silence in it
  • Ode to the last thirty-eight trees in New York City visible from this window
  • Ode to my living friends (January 2010)
  • Ode of withered clevage
  • Ode to menstrual blood
  • Celibate's ode to balls
  • Ode to thought
  • Secondary boycott ode
  • Legs ode
  • Unmatching legs ode
  • Matching ode
  • Ode of girls' things
  • Blow job ode
  • Ode to the female reproductive system.

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.