Olds, Sharon

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I want to go
up to them there in the late May sunlight and say it,
her hungry pretty face turning to me
her pitiful beautiful untouched body,
his arrogant handsome face turning to me,
his pitiful beautiful untouched body,
but I don’t do it. I want to live.

– Sharon Olds, “I Go Back to May 1937”

Listen to Sharon Olds’ reading for the Poetry Center of Chicago:

Read this interview with Sharon Olds from BOMB Magazine:

http://bombmagazine.org/article/1927/sharon-olds

Watch Sharon Olds’ TEDx talk:

The Poetry of the in-between | Sharon Olds | TEDxMet

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