Talk:Sharon Olds

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A 6 item bibliography of Sharon Olds' works has been added. Don 21:06, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Changed the link for Pittsfield in her personal life section to reflect the town in New Hampshire, not the one in Massachusetts. sources for change are: this article, http://www.graylagcabins.com/contact-us/, and https://literaryreview.co.uk/ode-dear. Xeracross (talk) 17:37, 30 March 2018 (UTC)

Additional item in bibliography standardized.
An additional item in the bibliography, The Gold Cell, has been standardized to conform to the rest of the entries. Don 15:37, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Criticism
The criticism is entirely one-sided and should be appended with a more traditional criticism of her work. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.88.181.112 (talk) 08:43, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Please. I deleted that harsh critic of Olds because it's not criticism with any basis in poetics; it's a Huffington Post "shock" piece (wow, who's overrated that we can take down a notch). Comparisons to Jerry Springer? Surely there is something more intellectual and founded than that in terms of available criticism. I agree there's a need for multiple points of view, etc, etc, but Olds' work is far more legitimate than the criticism provided here. If you want to include criticism, get something tactful and researched, not reactionism against confessionalism as a whole. Olds deserves better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sadiron (talk • contribs) 04:59, 25 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I like Olds' work too, but this Huffington Post piece offers views often levelled at her work, it is a 'legitimate' view, harsh or not. With Wikipedia it is not a matter of "if we want to include criticism", it is a needed part of any balanced article. Anis Shivani is an established writer, poet and critic; the quote is not presented as 'truth', merely the perspective of one strong source; the issue is not what "Olds deserves". We have currently very little in the way of critical appraisals here of Olds work. If you want to take this on, research and add more, by all means do. Please don't remove it just because you don't like it. Span (talk) 16:29, 25 November 2010 (UTC)

The Poetry section of this article: So which is it?
The first sentence is to the effect of "how she gave up poetry" and proceeds to describe how she wrote a massive amount, and so makes no sense. The first sentence is weird anyway: Why "Following her Ph.D.," or doctorate, or whatever? Why not just say that Olds describes her process thus...? Unfortunately, Olds uses improper grammar ("whoever" when "whomever" is correct) in the quotation... unfortunate for a littérateuse. She could be spared the embarrassment if the quote was edited; otherwise "[sic]" is needed.

Dstlascaux (talk) 17:24, 3 August 2011 (UTC)


 * Hmm. Well, the interview source is right there by the quote. Instead of sniffing the grammar of the 'littérateuse' I would encourage you to step in and help improve things. That is the general idea of Wikipedia. I feel fairly certain that Olds is not squirming with embarrassment about her quote. I'm sure she has better things to do. Span (talk) 08:14, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

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