ARIAS

Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a womans intimate life a nd political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mothers return from the dead: the peerless Sh aron Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique melody and moral logic, as Olds stands centre stage to account for her own late romance and chance wisdom, and faces the tra gic life o...[Read more]