Sharon Olds | Los curanderos
[en «El salto del ciervo» 2024]
“Cuando dicen: [Si hay médicos a bordo
por favor que se identifiquen](Itálica), me acuerdo de cuando mi entonces
marido se levantaba, y yo tenía el privilegio de ser
aquella de cuyo lado él se levantaba. Ahora dicen
que no funciona si no eres una igual.” [...] Seguir leyendo en: https://tinyurl.com/2cjung7y
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#SharonOlds #EscritoresMalditos #locagonia
La gata

La gata se lame una pata y se recuesta en el hueco de la biblioteca yace allí largas horas imperturbable como una esfinge luego gira su cabeza hacia mí se incorpora

Guardian: Kate Kellaway: Best Poetry Books of 2023

Kate Kellaway: Best Poetry Books of 2023, as published by The Guardian

"Entonces se transformó,
despacio, en una cosa de hueso,
que marcaba el lugar donde ella había estado."

Final de 'Última hora'

Hoy, cumple 81 años
¡Felicidades!🎂
🖊️#SharonOlds
Una de las voces más destacadas
de la #Poesía estadounidense contemporánea.
#PremioPulitzer en 2013

Thinking about US Supreme Court Justice #ClarenceThomas & the sketchy, unethical stuff he's up to his neck in, & thinking about how the other Justices might be our only hope in forcing him to recuse himself in cases he's tangled up in, tho at the risk of diminishing the #SupremeCourt itself. Then this #poetry came mind, this personal yet universal meditation on how the driving force of self-preservation ultimately obliterates all else. I Go Back to May 1937 - #SharonOlds https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47057/i-go-back-to-may-1937
I Go Back to May 1937 by Sharon Olds | Poetry Foundation

I see them standing at the formal gates of their colleges,

Poetry Foundation

There was a young love a-shining
Though clouds their joy were defining
Aise de mayon,
It made them feel strong
And let their romance keep on shining

#love #romance #sharonolds #mayonnaise #limerick #poetry

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/magazine/poem-aise-de-mayon.html

Poem: Aise de Mayon

Sharon Olds’s elegy to young love — with a side of mayonnaise.