Author: Sharon Olds

Cited by

• Nickolas Butler (1)
  • IN: The Hearts of Men (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying?
    FROM: Known to be Left, (2012), Poem, US
• Annie Delitt (1)
  • IN: White Nights in Split Town City (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I wonder, now, only when it will happen, when the young mother will hear the noise like somebody's pressure cooker down the block, going off. She'll go out into the yard holding her small daughter in her arms, and there, above the end of the street, in the air above the line of trees, she will see it rising, lifting up over our horizon, the upper rim of the gold ball, large as a giant planet starting to lift up over ours. She will be standing there in the yard holding her daughter, looking at it rise and glow and blossom and rise, and the child will open her arms to it, it will look so beautiful.
    FROM: "When", (1987), Poem, US