Unswept Room

"The realistic frisson of all Olds's favored scenes...can conceal the narrowness of her vision: her small range of subjects and characters would pose no problems at all were it offset by a broader range of forms, styles or tones. But in this volume, as in those before it, some of her poems seem simply to duplicate others....Olds offers up visceral, streamlined stories; often, though, her poems turn surprising extremes of pain and joy into all-too-efficient, predictable language."Olds, Sharon is the author of 'Unswept Room', published 2002 under ISBN 9780375414893 and ISBN 0375414894.