Balladz
Arguably America's greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragility and love of life 'She proves triumphantly evergreen' OBSERVER , *POETRY BOOK OF THE MONTH* 'You will follow wherever she leads' NEW YORK TIMES 'The most accessible poet of her generation' TELEGRAPH 'At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror, ' writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating collection, which opens with a section of quarantine poems, followed by her 'Amherst Balladz', honouring Emily Dickinson - 'she was our Girl - our Woman - / Man enough - for me' - and leads to celebrations of lost friends and lovers: her childhood, young womanh