Sharon Olds’s elegy to young love — with a side of mayonnaise.
Tag: Poetry and Poets
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Poem: On Seeing and Being Seen
This short poem grapples with so many themes at once, then finishes by reclaiming the body, desire and memory with a simple statement.
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‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage in London
The poet Richard Marsh is winning praise in London for a one-man theatrical version of the action movie.
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Where Romantic Poetry in a Fading Language Draws Stadium Crowds
That 300,000 people celebrated Urdu verse during a three-day festival was testament to the peculiar reality of the language in India.