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The Daily Poem: Death and Murder

Sharon Olds
Friday 19 February 1993 00:02 GMT
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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco in 1942 and now teaches in New York. The Father is a sequence of poems written about her own father's death from cancer, and is published by Secker and Warburg pounds 6.99 25 February 1993.

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