Arias by Sharon Olds Wayne Price and The World Before Snow

and The World Before Snow (2015)

Olds delivers these pieces with all the passion

Selima Hill

’ – Katie Gramich

Irene Koronas’s poems carefully splinter and refute our expectations in visceral minimalist fragments of desire

Arias by Sharon Olds Wayne Price and The World Before SnowFollowing her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience. The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Trayvon Martin, her mother's return from the dead: the peerless Sharon Olds once again takes up subject matter that is both difficult and ordinary, elusive and everywhere. Each aria is shaped by its unique melody and moral logic, as Olds stands centre stage