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Childhood & Poetry

one either can or cannot do it, there is no "faking" the essay or fudging the question of grammar with the excuse of "expressing" oneself.

Math is much like sex and the teenage passion for it: there is much boring talk but only one do-or-don't proof of proficiency. This is the tension of youth, a tension Olds captures with a wry, erotic calculation:

sealed, a factor of one, and she will

their legs, two each, and the curves of their sexes,

one each, and in her head she'll be doing her

If the memory of youth is a mosaic, fragmented experience, poetry shapes it down into even more specific colors. Sharon Olds has chosen high school imagery for her tinting of the experience and, while t

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