{"product_id":"9780375711770","title":"One Secret Thing","description":"\u003cp\u003eSharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humor, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy—sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger—public and private—illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revisioning, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. \u003ci\u003eOne Secret Thing \u003c\/i\u003eis charged throughout with Sharon Olds’s characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe doctor on the phone was young, maybe on his first rotation in the emergency room.\u003cbr\u003eOn the ancient boarding-school radio,\u003cbr\u003ein the attic hall, the announcer had given my boyfriend’s name as one of two brought to the hospital after the sunrise service, the egg-hunt, the crash—one of them critical, one of them dead. I was looking at the stairwell banisters, at their lathing,\u003cbr\u003ethe necks and knobs like joints and bones,\u003cbr\u003ethe varnish here thicker here thinner—I had said\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhich one of them died, \u003c\/i\u003eand now the world was an ant’s world: the huge crumb of each second thrown, somehow, up onto my back, and the young, tired voice said my fresh love’s name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom \u003c\/i\u003e“Easter 1960”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046364791024,"sku":"9780375711770","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375711770_p0.jpg?v=1763692176","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375711770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}