# The Father

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- Book: [The Father](https://www.bookquiver.com/sharon-olds/the-father) ([The Father.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sharon-olds/the-father.md))
- Authors: [Sharon Olds](https://www.bookquiver.com/sharon-olds)
- Publisher: knopf
- ISBN: 978-06-7974-002-5
- Pages: 96
- Published: 1992-04-21
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A searing sequence of poems about a daughter’s vision of a father’s illness and death—by the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called " a poet for these times, a...