The Father

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The Father is a poetry collection by Sharon Olds that confronts her father’s illness, death, and their fraught relationship with stark, emotionally intense verse.

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Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung 1
The Father canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf poetry collection
author Sharon Olds
authorNationality American
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
genre poetry
hasAuthorGender female
hasPart individual poems
intendedAudience adult readers
language English
literaryForm lyric poetry
literaryMovement contemporary American poetry
mainTheme death
family conflict
father–child relationship
forgiveness
grief
illness
memory
medium print
notableFor intense emotional honesty
unflinching treatment of family trauma
period late 20th century literature
style narrative
stark
subjectMatter a fraught parent–child relationship
the father’s death
the father’s illness
the poet's father
tone confessional
emotionally intense
writer Sharon Olds

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Sharon Olds notableWork The Father
Niklas Frank notableWork The Father
this entity surface form: Der Vater: Eine Abrechnung