Poems like mine—I don't call them confessional, with that tone of admitting to wrong-doing. My poems have done more accusing than admitting. I call work like mine "apparently personal". Or in my case apparently very personal.Some of my favorite Sharon Olds poems:
—Sharon Olds, interviewed in The Guardian in 2008
First Thanksgiving
I Go Back to May 1937
The Promise
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