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| #737795 in Books | Knopf | 1992-04-21 | 1992-04-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.40 x.23 x5.90l,.35 | File type: PDF | 96 pages | ||9 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Authentic encounter with the experience of my father's death|By Chauncey Bell|My father died a month ago, after four years of illness. I was with him when he died, and I went to to look for a book that would help me to interact with the extraordinary experience of the death of my father. Sharon Olds' book was far more than I had hoped to have been able to find. I have been|From Library Journal|These startling poems work and rework the poet's experience of her father dying from cancer. Many take place at his deathbed, detailing the physical horror of the disease as if to exorcise it: "When they empty out his catheter bag,/ pouring
The Father is a sequence of poems, a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death. It chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry. <...
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