Sharon Olds - April 16, 1986

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Sharon Olds

Sharon Olds reads poems from her large body of work. This reading includes early versions of several poems that would go on to be collected in The Wellspring (1996). 

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Introduction
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by Lois Shelton
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"The One Girl at the Boys' Party"
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Olds, Sharon. The Dead and the Living. New York: Knopf, 1984.
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"The Missing Boy"
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Olds, Sharon. The Dead and the Living. New York: Knopf, 1984.
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"The Couple"
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Olds, Sharon. The Dead and the Living. New York: Knopf, 1984.
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"On the Subway"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"The Pope's Penis"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"I Go Back to May 1937"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"201 Upper Terrace, San Francisco"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"Topography"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"Mouse Elegy"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"Life with Sick Kids"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"Mother's Eye"
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Olds, Sharon. "Mother's Eye." Ironwood, no. 27, 1986, p. 81. 

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"Mrs. Krikorian"
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Olds, Sharon. The Wellspring. New York: Knopf, 1996.
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"May 1968"
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Olds, Sharon. The Wellspring. New York: Knopf, 1996.
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"Adolescence"
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Olds, Sharon. The Wellspring. New York: Knopf, 1996.
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"The Race"
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Olds, Sharon. The Father. New York: Knopf, 1992.
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"Last Night"
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Differs from published version. 

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Olds, Sharon. The Wellspring. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 

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"Christian Child"
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Differs from published version. 

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Olds, Sharon. The Wellspring. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 

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"The Solution"
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Olds, Sharon. The Gold Cell. New York: Knopf, 1987.
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"His Ashes"
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Introduced as "My Father's Ashes."
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Olds, Sharon. The Father. New York: Knopf, 1992.
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"The Species"
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uncollected, unpublished
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"The First Two Weeks"
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Published version bears the title "My First Weeks. Differs from published version. 

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Olds, Sharon. The Wellspring. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. 

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