Comments on: Poem of the Week: Sharon Olds https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/poem-of-the-week-sharon-olds/ Where was it one first heard of the truth? Mon, 02 Jun 2014 00:21:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: B. Pres https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/poem-of-the-week-sharon-olds/comment-page-1/#comment-1927 Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:14:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3348#comment-1927 Wow, this one sneaks up on you. My first read-through of this I got to the end and thought, “what fluff! Okay, Sharon Olds, if you say so.” But then I gave it a second read and the genius of her expression and observations jumped out at me: “I thought you were married to and, who was often

somewhere in the sentence, holding things

together, while you would be standing, a tin

soldier, the rifle barrel of your h

sticking up over your shoulder.”

or “I felt a little

sorry for you, always announcing,

never the thing itself. ”

Dang, Sharon Olds, you stinker you!

]]> By: Maggi https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/poem-of-the-week-sharon-olds/comment-page-1/#comment-1392 Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:54:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3348#comment-1392 Thank you for this poem, thank you for making the Ordinary Extraordinary! :)

]]> By: Mike Cooper https://thethepoetry.com/2010/12/poem-of-the-week-sharon-olds/comment-page-1/#comment-1324 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:04:00 +0000 https://thethepoetry.com/?p=3348#comment-1324 This is the poetry I like to find.  Not the best, or even particularly good.  Please don’t be offended.  Since TS Eliot nothings been good to me.  But I know I’ll be thinking about this poem over at least the next week of data entry.  Mostly numbers.  But when there is a word that word is often The.  So, well thank you.

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