Gold Cell (Knopf Poetry Series)

My favorite modern poet.

Awesomely Sweeet. I love Sharon Olds

Perhaps some of my all time fav poetry

My favorite poetess. Her poem "New mother" still brings me to tears.

AMAZING Poetry! Saturn is disturbing and brilliant, her "elements of craft" are extremely sharp. And Cambridge Elegy - made me cry the first time I read it and still does sometimes.

First saw this book in the movie Into The Wild where Emile Hirsch as Chris McCandless reads it to his sister, Carine, played by Jenna Malone. The scene is in his car (she's driving) and they are about to have a celebratory graduation (his, from Emory University) lunch with their parents. He recites her poem "I Go Back to May 1937". It is to symbolize the damage and dysfunction of...more

First saw this book in the movie Into The Wild where Emile Hirsch as Chris McCandless reads it to his sister, Carine, played by Jenna Malone. The scene is in his car (she's driving) and they are about to have a celebratory graduation (his, from Emory University) lunch with their parents. He recites her poem "I Go Back to May 1937". It is to symbolize the damage and dysfunction of their own family. Sharon Olds is considered to be a female contemporary Walt Whitman. The book is shown in the movie for about 10 seconds.See what amazing things you can find if you pay attention to the little details?   hide

see her read live. it makes it even better