#1639: Sharon Olds’ “Arias”

December 17, 2019 00:30:00
#1639: Sharon Olds’ “Arias”
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#1639: Sharon Olds’ “Arias”

Dec 17 2019 | 00:30:00

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Show Notes

Sharon Olds is renowned for poetry that examines marriage, motherhood, intimacy, and the human condition. She is the author of 13 books of poetry and received both the Pulitzer Prize and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize. Her new collection, “Arias,” explores political conscience, race and class in poems delivered with operatic passion, anguish and solo […]

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