Sharon Olds: ‘The Dead and the Living’ – Acclaimed Poetry Collection Exploring Grief, Memory, and Human Connection

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Knopf, paperback

Publication Date: February 12, 1984

Publisher Marketing: From the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead.
Larry Lewis say, “The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called ‘beauty.'” It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers.

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