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From under love's table.(Book review)
Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002, by Sharon Olds; Random House, 2004, $34.95.
SHARON OLDS (born 1942) is an American poet who has received many honours in her own country; most recently, in 1998-2002 she was the incumbent of the New York State poet laureateship. Strike Sparks collects favourites from seven previous collections and carries on its frontispiece a manifesto indicative of her forceful voice:
I ... bang them together at the hip, like chips of flint, as if to strike sparks ...
The novelist Flaubert told his mistress Louise Colet, also a writer, that his sensibility was "sharper than a razor blade" and that he scraped ...
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