Satan Says
Satan Says
Summary
First published in 1980, the classic poetry of Sharon Olds' Satan Says was introduced into college courses twenty years ago, and still maintains a wide usage today. Few first books have the power or vigor of design of Satan Says. Marilyn Hacker described it as "a daring and elegant first book. This is a poetry which affirms and redeems the art."
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Satan Says by Sharon Olds
This edition is a paperback (1980) of the original poetry collection. Marilyn Hacker described it as “a daring and elegant first book. This is a poetry which affirms and redeems the art.” Ada Limón says the book is "Brave and brilliant," Camille T. Dungy says it's "So direct and honest and unflinching it never fails to take my breath away," and Jan Beatty says, "Satan Says is the single most earth-shattering book of my writing life." A 45th anniversary release (2025) of Sharon Olds’s Satan Says is available in a deluxe hardcover edition (ISBN 9780822948971) or ebook (ISBN 9780822992462).Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry, most recently Balladz,a finalist for the National Book Award; Arias, short-listed for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize; Odes; and Stag’s Leap, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize. Her other honors include the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first book, Satan Says, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second, The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. The Father was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize in England, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped to found the NYU workshop program for residents of Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. She lives in New York City.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780822953142 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822953145 |
| Title | Satan Says |
| Author | Sharon Olds |
| Series | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Year published | 1980-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |