The Wellspring: Poems

Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening, to the shock of childbirth, to the wonder and humor of parenthood--and, finally, to the depths of adult love.

Always bold, musical, honest, these poems plunge us into the essence of experience. This is a highly charged, beautifully organized collection from one of the finest poets writing today.

Author: Sharon Olds
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 01/30/1996
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.84w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780679765608

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/27/1995 pg. 65
Booklist 01/01/1996 pg. 778
Library Journal 01/01/1996 pg. 104
New York Times 09/15/1996 pg. 15

About the Author
Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her poetry has won both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York.