The Poetry of the in-between | Sharon Olds | TEDxMet

The Breasts and the Hymen: two powerful anatomical and symbolic body parts are the subjects of this poet's powerful exploration the in-between of the past and the future.
The twelve collections published by poet Sharon Olds include Satan Says (1980), The Dead and The Living (1984), The Wellspring (1996), and Stag's Leap (2013), which won both the Pulitzer and T.S. Eliot prizes. Olds was New York State Poet Laureate from 1998-2000 and is currently a professor at New York University.
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[@41yearoldnewdriver]

I love this woman. Her poetry inspired me to celebrate womanhood! Sharon Olds is an autobiographical woman poet. Thank you Sharon!

[@emmettwalz]

I love her too. For twenty years since first reading her glorious words. Wish I had known of her break from her first love (he could not possibly have "known" her, all the years they were together, else he could never leave her), prior to her finding her second. May he prove more worthily responsive to, and generative with her all consuming heart. They may then, become One, forever, "or else, swoon to death".

[@codydraco]

I’m a man and Sharon Olds is by far my favorite poet. She is absolutely fearless in her work and her own is mighty!

[@kipastha3810]

This is innocence in a level I cant describe. Old and yet so young! Read aloud!!

[@truthlivingetc88]

she is ace

[@the_famous_reply_guy]

She is like an innocent older woman. She understands all the muck in reality but walks on the grass alongside it all.)

[@ignaciosantorino392]

Coming back to this every once in a while when I want to be awash with poetic experience.

[@infoanalysis]

Amazing, and if you pay attention closely and not take her too seriously, she might even hit you with a great sense of humor; the pinata.

[@lisavalos89]

Highly recommended by Rupi Kaur, that's why now I love them both

[@surfin1234]

The Race was one of the poems that we are assessed on and im having huge problems