I Go Back to May 1937 Sharon Olds poem - Into the Wild film

"I Go Back to May 1937" poem by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds (from "The Gold Cell", 1987), used as voiceover in Sean Penn's film "Into the Wild" (2007)

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What’s the song behind this ? Someone pls 🙏🏼

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I GO BACK TO MAY 1937 I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges, I see my father strolling out under the ochre sandstone arch, the red tiles glinting like bent plates of blood behind his head, I see my mother with a few light books at her hip standing at the pillar made of tiny bricks with the wrought-iron gate still open behind her, its sword-tips black in the May air, they are about to graduate, they are about to get married, they are kids, they are dumb, all they know is they are innocent, they would never hurt anybody. I want to go up to them and say Stop, don’t do it-she’s the wrong woman, he’s the wrong man, you are going to do things you cannot imagine you would ever do, you are going to do bad things to children, you are going to suffer in ways you never heard of, you are going to want to die. I want to go up to them there in the late May sunlight and say it, but I don’t do it. I want to live. I take them up like the male and female paper dolls and bang them together at the hips like chips of flint as if to strike sparks from them, I say Do what you are going to do, and I will tell about it.

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Who is the writer?

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What book did he hand her I'm tying to find it 😩

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temyah Wright ‘stag’s leap’ by Sharon Olds

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The Gold Cell Sharon olds

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@@caitlyn5431 I bought it

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Sharon Olds poems.

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U believe correct book depicted is Gold not Stag's and not Sparkle. It's a book of her poetry for sure.