Poet Sharon Olds reads, April 14, 2014, Emory Libraries

[@codydraco]

Thank you for hosting one of my favorite poets all those years ago and uploading the recording here for us to enjoy the experience at a later date.

[@rievans57]

Whenever I listen to Sharon Olds read her poems a transfer of emotion begins.

[@mariasophia2133]

"I turned sideways and slipped through the needle's eye and then I walked down the aisle toward my father, the jet was full and people's hair was shinning,they were smiling, the interior of the plane was filled with a mist of gold endorphin light, I wept as people weep when they enter heaven in massive relief...." Simply Beautiful! Thank You!

[@41yearoldnewdriver]

I really like Sharon Olds's poetry. I like her poetry because it's so feminine and interesting!

[@bryancomeaux4961]

hi sharon its me bryan from big bend

[@TameTheMind]

"I go back to May 1936" at around 52:49, Sharon reads this poem.

[@Oriental-whispers]

Sharon olds is brilliant!

[@habibaezzat2055]

Her voice is so soft, my eyes are watering itself.

[@katemcshane]

I've loved Sharon Olds' poetry since SATAN SAYS. I met her once and I could barely speak, which I have regretted many, many times since then.

[@stephenericberry8920]

Singsongy, brilliant, folksy, accessible -- I enjoyed this reading, especially getting a sense of Olds as a survivor (refugee?) of an abusive "Christian" fundamentalist background. Neruda must be thanked (again and again) for his odes and their influences upon this poet's work -- poems that are among her most powerful because they inhere and extol with such delicate felicity as epistles. This is a storyteller whose poems, particularly in Stag's Leap, are episodic and often contain stanzas that the poet has opted not to delineate visually on the pages of her texts. We also hear in her reading how Olds has subtly stitched together prose constructions presented in linear notation juxtaposed with more lyrical, beat-driven passages, so we move back and forth between stretches of compressed diction and the more relaxed valleys of the commonplace. She is a master of these transitions.

[@kellymckay1750]

Wish I still had my signed first edition of 'Satan Says'...

[@anthonyperry9939]

Sharon, could you please do a reading tour of Australia? Much obliged.

[@bouchaibnatek6654]

you are great. I love your language I love your voice.

[@rosiepsong]

starts 13.57m lucille clifton poem. 28m known to be left from stags leap 48.30m resume reading

[@orangepets]

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[@toddsqui]

How did no one here comment on the douche bag poem? It was practically the 11 o'clock number.

[@alekdaniels]

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[@alekdaniels]

I flinched when she referred to the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. I heard this poem when I was younger and was unaware of this conflict. Now, it's all over the news.

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[@orangepets]

Even more relevant today...now that we can't not-know.