Colin’s Reviews > Some Ether > Status Update

FFO Sharon Olds and Franz Wright… childhood trauma, parent suicide, addiction…Intimacy and emptiness duel throughout the book. I thought the first half of the collection shined much stronger than the second. "At ten we are still learning / the rules of cartoon animation, / that if a man draws a door on a rock / only he can pass through it. anyone else who tries / will crash into the rock."