- Paperback: 79 pages
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (31 Dec 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0679740023
- ISBN-13: 978-0679740025
- Product Dimensions: 15.1 x 0.7 x 21.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 588,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A daughter chronicles the events of her father's illness and death in a sequence of poems.
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No matter how early I would get up and come out of the guest room, and look down the hall, there between the wings of the wing-back chair my father would be sitting, his head calm and dark between the wings. Read the first page
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No matter how early I would get up and come out of the guest room, and look down the hall, there between the wings of the wing-back chair my father would be sitting, his head calm and dark between the wings. Read the first page
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This is the fourth book I have read by Sharon Olds. I found The Father to be less enjoyable than her other collections of poetry such as Satan Says or The Dead and the Living.
In The Father, it seems that Olds has finally come to terms with her father and forgiven him for the past, but I am not sure if Olds just doesn't have anything left to say, or if I'm just not interested in hearing it. To me, The Father seems to be typical and redundant-in content and style. Don't get me completely wrong though, there were a few poems I really liked, and several metaphors here and there really caught my attention. As usual, Olds was very frank and direct about her emotions, but overall I felt very uninspired by this collection of poems. By the end I was just bored and ready to be done with the book. It is like reading someone who doesn't know what to write about but feels compelled to write anyway. If you have never read Olds, I would recommend her earlier work first.
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Awful. Do we really need to know all the details of Olds' dying father? And I mean, ALL the details. Most unpleasant.
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My father died a month ago, after four years of illness. I was with him when he died, and I went to Amazon 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 carrying it with me for two weeks now and reading passages over and over. She has written the poems I would have written had I been a poet in the middle of the experience of my father's dying. Exceptional and moving.
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