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On Being with Krista Tippett
This book, published in 2016, is a collection of odes that pay homage to the human body and experience. It contains poems with words considered unsuitable for public radio.
Your newest book, your 2016 book is Odes and this is the one that has lots of words in it that we can't say on public radio
— Episode: [Unedited] Sharon Olds with Krista Tippe...
Episode: [Unedited] Sharon Olds with Krista Tippett
This book, published in 2016, is a collection of odes that pay homage to the human body and experience. It contains poems with words considered unsuitable for public radio.
Your newest book, your 2016 book is Odes and this is the one that has lots of words in it that we can't say on public radio
It includes the ode to the hymen, ode to the clitoris, ode to the penis, ode to the condom, ode to the tampon, lots of others.
I'm not going to ask you to read the ode to the penis because most of it would get, but I'm going to read a little bit of it because it's fabulous.
I have realized that this book came about as a book of odes. I was traveling with my then boyfriend and a book of Neruda's just about fell off a shelf in an old used bookstore, and it fell on him.
Episode: Sharon Olds — Odes to the *****
This recent book pays homage to the human body and experience. It includes poems with explicit language about sexuality and the female body.
Her most recent book, Odes, pays homage to aspects of the human body and experience that get bleeped out on public radio to follow FCC rules, including ode to the clicks, ode to the and ode to the tampon.
Your newest book, your 2016 book is Odes, and this is the one that has lots of words in it that we can't say on public radio, and I'm going to say a few of them right here, and we have to, we'll probably have to cut it out. It includes the ode to the hymen, ode to the clitoris, ode to the penis, ode to the condom, ode to the tampon, lots of others, ode of withered cleavage, celibates, ode to balls.
And I pulled out a few... I wonder if you might want to read the Unmatching Legs, Ode? Because I think that also is part of the story of where you are and with your dancing and just that piece of drama in your life right now as your life is progressing.
I have realized that this book came about as a book of odes. I was traveling with my then boyfriend, and a book of Neruda's just about fell off a shelf in an old used bookstore. And it fell on him, and he said, here are poems. This is a book of poems.