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| Sharon Olds |
Hello everyone and welcome to this week's slightly late in the day Word Garden Word List. Our source this week is "The Dead and the Living" a poetry collection by Sharon Olds.
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| I don't know why but I had a devil of a time finding an image of the cover for this book! |
I became interested in her work recently when someone told me about her poem "Sex Without Love" which asks how people do it, as I have sometimes asked myself. It's a foreign concept to me. And so I bought this collection.
Sharon Olds' first collection had the catchy title "Satan Says" and our source book was her second. She won a Pulitzer for her collection "Stag's Leap" in 2013.While finding out a few details about her, I came across this: when she first sent her poetry to a literary magazine, she received this reply: "This is a literary magazine. If you want to write about this sort of subject, may we suggest Ladies' Home Journal. The true subjects of poetry are... male subjects, not your children." I sincerely hope that the magazine in question suffered a steep decline in circulation due to a shortage of stuffy, sexist, blinkered subscribers.
What we do here is to use at least 3 of the 20 words provided in a new, original poem of our own. Then simply link up, visit others if able to do so, and then sit back and bask in the glow of a creative task well completed! This prompt remains open through next Saturday.
And now, your List:
ambulance
asleep
black
bricks
cactus
can-opener
dolls
elegant
glittering
gloves
halo
hospital
ivy
peeled
pool
red
salty
sparrows
tulips
whole