num_pages: 72
description: Poems examine life as a child, a woman, and a mother; death; and our relationship to the world. This book, Olds's first, was published when she was 37, and it launched her Pulitzer-winning career.I am trying to write myway out of the closed boxredolent of cedar. Satancomes to me in the locked boxand says, I'll get you out. SayMy father is a shit. I saymy father is a shit and Satanlaughs and says, It's opening.
language: English
title: Satan Says
titlecomplete: Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
genres: Feminism, Fiction, The United States Of America, School, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Poetry, Womens
ratings_count: 2274
awards: awardedAt: 315561600000
name: San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press