{"product_id":"the-dead-and-the-living-isbn-9780394715636","title":"The Dead and the Living","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner comes a beautifully realized collection of poems about childhood, love, marriage, children, and honoring the dead. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLarry Lewis say, “The Dead and the Living is an unignorable book, something truly rare. The feeling behind it is painful, but exquisitely so. Pain made into art or what, in another time, people called ‘beauty.’” It is an achievement of a poet writing in the full measure of her powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Lamont poetry selection of the Academy of American Poets. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Poems for the Dead\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I. PUBLIC\u003cbr\u003e Ideographs \u003cbr\u003e Photograph of the Girl \u003cbr\u003e Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 \u003cbr\u003e Portrait of a Child \u003cbr\u003e Nevsky Prospekt \u003cbr\u003e The Death of Marilyn Monroe \u003cbr\u003e The Issues \u003cbr\u003e Aesthetics of the Shah \u003cbr\u003e Things That Are Worse Than Death \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II. PRIVATE\u003cbr\u003e The Guild \u003cbr\u003e Grandmother Love Poem \u003cbr\u003e The Eye \u003cbr\u003e Birthday Poem for My Grandmother \u003cbr\u003e Of All the Dead That Have Come to Me, This Once\u003cbr\u003e Farewell Poem \u003cbr\u003e The Winter After Your Death \u003cbr\u003e Miscarriage \u003cbr\u003e The End \u003cbr\u003e Best Friends \u003cbr\u003e Absent One \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: Poems for the Living\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I. THE FAMILY\u003cbr\u003e Possessed \u003cbr\u003e The Victims \u003cbr\u003e The Forms \u003cbr\u003e The Departure \u003cbr\u003e Burn Center \u003cbr\u003e The Ideal Father\u003cbr\u003e Fate \u003cbr\u003e My Father Snoring \u003cbr\u003e The Moment \u003cbr\u003e My Father’s Breasts \u003cbr\u003e The Takers \u003cbr\u003e The Pact \u003cbr\u003e The Derelict \u003cbr\u003e Late Speech with My Brother \u003cbr\u003e The Elder Sister\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e II. THE MEN\u003cbr\u003e The Connoisseuse of Slugs \u003cbr\u003e Poem to My First Lover\u003cbr\u003e New Mother \u003cbr\u003e The Line \u003cbr\u003e The Fear of Oneself \u003cbr\u003e Poem to My Husband from My Father’s Daughter \u003cbr\u003e Sex Without Love \u003cbr\u003e Ecstasy \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e III. THE CHILDREN\u003cbr\u003e Exclusive \u003cbr\u003e Six-Year-Old Boy \u003cbr\u003e Eggs \u003cbr\u003e Size and Sheer Will \u003cbr\u003e For My Daughter \u003cbr\u003e Rite of Passage \u003cbr\u003e Relinquishment \u003cbr\u003e Son \u003cbr\u003e Pre-Adolescent in Spring \u003cbr\u003e Blue Son \u003cbr\u003e Pajamas\u003cbr\u003e The Killer \u003cbr\u003e The Sign of Saturn \u003cbr\u003e Armor \u003cbr\u003e 35\/10 \u003cbr\u003e The Missing Boy \u003cbr\u003e Bread \u003cbr\u003e Bestiary \u003cbr\u003e The One Girl at the Boys’ Party \u003cbr\u003e The CoupleSHARON OLDS was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eSatan Says\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, \u003ci\u003eThe Dead and the Living\u003c\/i\u003e, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and in the N.Y.U. workshop program at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island in New York. More recently she was awarded the Walt Whitman Citation for Merit by the New York State Writers Institute of the State University of New York. The citation officially invested her with the title of New York State Poet for 1998-2000.","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302935449829,"sku":"NP9780394715636","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780394715636.jpg?v=1767738950","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-dead-and-the-living-isbn-9780394715636","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}