{"product_id":"the-father-poems-isbn-9780679740025","title":"The Father: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA searing sequence of poems about a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called \"a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won’t back down\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Father\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles these events in a connected narrative, from the onset of the illness to reflections in the years after the death. The book is, most of all, a series of acts of understanding. The poems are impelled by a passion to know, and a freedom to follow wherever the truth may lead. The book goes into area of feeling and experience rarely entered in poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ebullient language, the startling, far-reaching images, the sense of extraordinary connectedness seize us immediately. Sharon Olds transforms a harsh reality with truthfulness, with beauty, with humor—and without bitterness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe deep pain in \u003ci\u003eThe Father\u003c\/i\u003e arises from a death, and from understanding a life. But there is joy as well. In the end, we discover we have been reading not a grim accounting but an inspiriting tragedy, transcending the personal. The radiance and daring that have always distinguished Sharon Old’s work find here their most powerful expression.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303111479525,"sku":"NP9780679740025","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679740025.jpg?v=1767739304","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-father-poems-isbn-9780679740025","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}