The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

Arguably America’s greatest living poet, Sharon Olds enters her eightieth year with a book for our times: a book of fear, fragililty and love of life. Renowned for her poetry of searing honesty, sexual frankness and brave originality, Olds’ ‘Balladz’ emerges ‘at the eleventh hour of the end of the world’, from the time of plague, this time of loss, where she can look at the world and her life and tell us plainly ‘love is the love of who we are, it is a form of knowing.’