Tomb for Two

Adam Mars-Jones

  • The Father by Sharon Olds
    Secker, 88 pp, £6.00, February 1993, ISBN 0 436 33952 8
  • The Sign of Saturn by Sharon Olds
    Secker, 92 pp, £8.00, March 1991, ISBN 0 436 29929 1

Praise The Father. Praise Sharon Olds. Celebrate the autobiographical mode in American poetry, its risks and rewards. Praise directness cut with understatement, starkness with an obliquity that can still take the reader off guard. Salute, with unease, elegies that are also episodes of psychodrama, stages of a struggle that bereavement alters in key but hardly interrupts.

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