# The Wellspring

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- Book: [The Wellspring](https://www.bookquiver.com/sharon-olds/the-wellspring) ([The Wellspring.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sharon-olds/the-wellspring.md))
- Authors: [Sharon Olds](https://www.bookquiver.com/sharon-olds)
- Publisher: knopf
- ISBN: 978-06-7976-560-8
- Pages: 112
- Published: 1996-01-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Sharon Olds's dazzling new collection is a sequence of poems that reaches into the very wellspring of life. The poems take us back to the womb, and from there on to childhood, to a searing sexual awakening,...