One Secret Thing

von Sharon Olds

96 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Sharon 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. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humour, 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 revision, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. One Secret Thing is charged throughout with Sharon Olds's characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power.

• Reihe: Jonathan Cape
• ISBN: 9780224087841
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 05.03.2009
• Größe: 200 x 129 mm
• Verlag: Chatto & Windus