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Get an overview of this hotel4.5-star beach hotel with a full-service spa
Nestled on the beach, this Guaruja hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Mar Casado Island and Pernambuco Beach. Sorocotuba Beach and Eden Beach are also within 3 mi (5 km).
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Spend the day relaxing at the beach, practicing your swing on Sofitel Jequitimar Guarujá's golf course, or pampering yourself at the full-service spa. Then enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's 4 restaurants.
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All 301 rooms feature thoughtful touches like bathrobes and slippers, along with balconies and sofa beds. Guests will also find 24-hour room service, cable TV, and DVD players.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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In addition to a full-service spa, Sofitel Jequitimar Guarujá features a golf course and an indoor pool. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 4 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include a swim-up bar, a poolside bar, and a bar/lounge. A complimentary breakfast is offered.
Business-related amenities at this 4.5-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 66927 square feet (6220 square meters) include conference space. This luxury hotel also offers an outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a health club. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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- Number of restaurants - 4
- Golf course on site
- Full-service spa
- Children's pool
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
- Swim-up bar
- Poolside bar
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- Health club
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- Children's club
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- Sauna
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- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Spa services on site
- Business center
- Conference space
- Conference space size (feet) - 66927
- Conference space size (meters) - 6220
- Number of meeting rooms - 18
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- Multilingual staff
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- Number of floors - 5
- Total number of rooms - 301
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- Children's pool
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- Sofa bed
- DVD player
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- Laundry facilities
- Arcade/game room
Valet parking (surcharge)
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- Balcony
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- Room service (24 hours)
- Cable TV service
- Pay movies
- DVD player
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- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Free newspaper
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
- Bathrobes
- Slippers
- Designer toiletries
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Air conditioning
Where to Eat
A complimentary breakfast is offered.
BRISA - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
BOULANGERIE LE FOURNIL - This brasserie specializes in French cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
LES EPICES - This restaurant specializes in French cuisine and serves dinner only.
MAR CASADO - This restaurant specializes in barbecue and serves lunch only.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
Guests can play rounds at the 9-hole golf course and enjoy other recreation facilities including a health club. An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, a children's pool, and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna and a steam room.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scuba diving nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
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- Mountain biking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
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- Motor boating on site
- Pilates classes on site
- Playground on site
- Racquetball/squash on site
- Sailing on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
Spa Services
Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the hotel's full-service spa.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children under 11 years old stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Parents traveling with a child under 18 must present the child's birth certificate and photo ID (passport for foreign visitors) upon check-in. If only one parent or legal guardian is traveling with the child, that parent or legal guardian must also present a notarized consent of travel signed by both parents. Visitors who plan to travel with children should consult with a Brazilian consulate office prior to travel for further guidance. Up to 2 children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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Men account for the majority of Network Administrators in the United States. The overall average income for this group is approximately $55K per year. Overall cash earnings for Network Administrators stretch from $36K on the lower end to $77K near the top, and the heftiest packages can encompass around $5K from bonuses and $5K from profit sharing. Experience level is the biggest factor affecting pay for this group, followed by the company and geography. Job satisfaction for Network Administrators is high. A large number report receiving medical coverage from their employers and a fair number collect dental insurance. The data in this summary comes from the PayScale salary survey.
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Network administrators are responsible for the upkeep of computer hardware and software systems. They usually focus on the network components within their company. In some cases it is the responsibility of network administrators to design and implement new networks. Although some of the responsibilities for network administrators may vary depending on the size and locations of the company they work for, there are still some common responsibilities that all administrators will share. They are generally in charge of network address assignments, management and implementation of protocols. They also handle the maintenance of networks and file servers. When working for smaller companies, network administrators are also usually in charge of conducting maintenance on computers, printer, routers, smartphones, etc. Their duties include network monitoring, testing for weaknesses, handling updates, installing and implementing security programs, and evaluating network management software. Network administrators are also responsible for ensuring that the network used by the organization is working effectively and is properly maintained. Administrators who work for smaller companies also have the responsibility of making sure that licenses are paid for and up to date, checking for security breaches, and maintaining proper installations and applications. In order to become a network administrator it is important to have extensive technical knowledge. It is also important to have a bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics, or another related field. Working as a network administrator can be stimulating and exciting for those with an interest in technology and computer networks.
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At the upper end, Network Administrators who move into a Director of Information Technology Services role can end up with a hefty increase in pay. The average income for Directors of IT Services is a much higher $105K per year. The most common next step for a Network Administrator is to become a Network Engineer or an Information Technology Manager. The former position pays an additional $10K per year on average, and the latter position pays $22K more per year.
U.S. Air Force (USAF), U.S. Marine Corps, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), General Dynamics Information Technology Inc, and Compuweigh are leaders in the field that employ a large number of Network Administrators. Heading up the field in terms of compensation, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) offers the most; Network Administrators earn $64K on average there.
Survey results imply that Network Administrators deploy a deep pool of skills on the job. Most notably, skills in VMware ESX, Virtualization, Cisco Networking, and Microsoft Exchange are correlated to pay that is above average, with boosts between 5 percent and 11 percent. Skills that seem to negatively impact pay include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, and Windows Operating System General Use. Most people who know Network Management / Administration also know Cisco Networking and Microsoft Exchange. Those proficient in Microsoft Active Directory are, more often than not, also skilled in Microsoft Exchange and Cisco Networking.
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I'm not sure if you do this but, I use the TV quite often as a background to working on the laptop. Some shows are perfect for this because they intrigue me enough where I'll keep them on for the back-to-back marathons that the station runs. Here's my list of my favorite marathon shows that I'll switch between, not watch all at once, I'm not THAT much of a recluse LOL! Feel free to make your own list or leave your faves in the comment section.
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds is the Pringles of TV- once you watch one, you can't stop. Try it, I dare you ;p I also love crime shows. This one is one of the best because you get to hunt for the killer along with the Behavioral Analysis Unit of the FBI (yeah, they're not the normal cops in a cop show). You'll find yourself looking at everyone's behavior to see if they're the one!
Law & Order:SVU
I actually love all the Law & Orders so they all fit in this list except for Criminal Intent- Goran annoys me a little bit too much for me to watch more than one show at a time. Anyhoo- maybe it's because I'm a little twisted or maybe it's that I'm personally invested in causes that concern women and children so naturally, this one would catch my attention. I find the cases both horrifying and educational.
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Here's my confession: I LOVE trash reality shows. I work hard and use my brain all day long, it's nice to give it a break every once in a while. Also, somehow, it makes me feel better about myself. Petty? Possibly. Fun? You betcha! RHONJ is just the trashiest of the bunch with a bonafide lunatic as part of the cast, so it's fun to see what mess they'll get themselves into!
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
RHOA is another trashy one that I love. Some of these girls are downright ghetto and dress themselves in designer duds but, you know what they say....you can take the girl out of the hood but, you can't take the hood out of the girl. I love how they throw in the token white trash girl to make it even more fun! But, their dramas are SO fun to watch play out- the writers of these shows must have one of the most enjoyable jobs in the world. Imagine being able to write this stuff and get paid!
My Fair Wedding
Ahhh....I love my David Tutera. I've learned quite a bit about wedding planning from this show and actually have entertained the idea of screwing up my own so that he'll come and rescue me LOL. I said entertain, calm down! This show is fun- it's a fun little jaunt into other bride's visions and how some of those....just....don't work. It's also fun to see the end results and everybody really happy about their wedding day!
House Hunters International
Just like above but, international. This is one of my favorite ways to check out other spots in the world- many neighborhoods I've never heard of and they don't get the attention of travel sites. It's fun to daydream and pretend you can afford a vacation house in some far off wonderful place. Actually, you may be amazed that some spots are quite affordable!
Four Weddings
Another favorite reality wedding show of mine, Four Weddings is incredibly helpful. There are four different brides with four different weddings, each bride goes to the other weddings and rates it on entertainment, ambience, food, ceremony, dress, etc. The winner gets an ideal honeymoon with their new hubby! I love it because you get to see what people REALLY think of weddings. You spend so much time, money and energy planning a wedding- it's helpful to be a fly on the wall and see how your ideas would actually work out in real life.
The Millionaire Matchmaker
I love Patty. I love how direct she is and how no-BS she is, this is actually what turns most people off of her. She likes to put people in their place and they deserve it for the most part. Two millionaires (or millionairesses) are paired with approved every day gals and guys. The two meet their matches and make a decision for a final two to have a mini-date to get to know each other. Then, the millionaires choose between the two for a date. Patty has her rules: No asking for numbers from anyone else, no talk of sex, no sex altogether until you're committed, etc. I'd love this a little more if it were for everyday folk, but, then it wouldn't be called Millionaire Matchmaker.
Sex and the City
I used to be addicted to this show- in fact in college, with my funky style, smoking cigarettes, drinking Cosmos, laptop and curly blonde hair, people used to say I was Carrie (I WISH!). But, it wasn't because of the show that I was like that, I swear! It was college! I love to wach re-runs of this show because I love the fact that it showed women as women, characters I could relate to and that reminded me of my own friends.
Family Guy
Family Guy does a great job of just going far enough and always keep you guessing if they'll actually say/do that. Yes, yes they will. It's a fun show and always manages to stay fresh and keep you on your toes. If you've ever wanted to say anything out loud, I bet there's a Family Guy episode that says it for you!
Dog Whisperer
Nando and I want to get a dog SOOOOO badly but, we need a bigger car and yard, first. So, to appease our desire for an adorable pup, we watch Cesar. I look at it as doing research for that wonderful day when we're finally able to adopt a dog from the shelter. It's so interesting to watch how quickly he gets to the problem which mostly has to do with the owner and how he re-trains the owner to solve their own problems.
Beef is fascinating. If you love hip-hop (as you know I do with my
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Kitchen Nightmares
This show is disgusting and I'm glad none of the restaurants that I've gone to are featured on the show- though it's my fear it'll happen sooner or later. Gordon Ramsey (of Hell's Kitchen fame) goes into struggling restaurants, finds out what's wrong, remodels it, reconstructs it, re-everything it and then, voila! He re-opens it and saves the family or owners from bankruptcy. It's amazing how some people run their restaurants and you'll see the range of it here.
Top Chef: Just Desserts
Speaking of cooking, I love it and it's one of my newest passions. One of my oldest is baking and this show is just the show for me. It's quite fun to see chefs put under a TON of pressure to come up with amazingly creative desserts. It's also helped me to get creative in my kitchen....without the time crunch or world famous judges judging me.
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I haven't even heard of half of this shows. I need some catching up to do. Thanks, Sam!
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Anytime :) If you're ever bored, have a looksie- especially with Criminal Minds, you may just like that one or Kitchen Nightmares ;p
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Method Make pastry dough and chill.
Put water and sugar in a shallow pan, dis- solve over gentle heat and boil rapidly for 2 minutes.
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Wash apricots and cut in half with a ser- rated-edge stainless steel knife, or fruit knife, by cutting down to and around stone from stalk end, and following groove on side of apricot.
Give the fruit a slight twist to halve it.
If pits do not come away easily, poach apricots whole.
Once cooked, the pits can be taken out without breaking the fruit.
For more flavor, crack some pits, skin the kernels and add to the fruit during cooking.
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Cool on a wire rack.
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Lift apricots from the syrup and arrange in flan shell.
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These Pan-Fried noodles with Chicken Livers are a desire ! Just try out these crispy brown noodles and chicken livers dish for your next meal and let me know if you agree with me! Your suggestions for these Pan-fried noodles with chicken livers are welcome !
|Thin noodles
|1⁄2 Pound
|2 Tablespoon
|Chicken livers
|1 Pound
|Chopped celery
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Chopped onions
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|For thickening
|2 Tablespoon, mixed with 4 tablespoons water
|4 Tablespoon, mixed with cornstarch
|Soy sauce
|2 Teaspoon
Boil the noodles in a generous amount of water for 10 minutes.
Turn into a colander, rinse in cold water and set aside to drain.
When well drained, chill thoroughly in a refrigerator.
Heat a 7 inch skillet with oil; when it is very hot, add half the noodles, and brown on both sides.
Transfer onto a hot serving platter and keep warm.
Repeat with the remainder of the noodles.
Cut the chicken livers into small pieces and put into the oily skillet with celery and onions.
Saute over moderate heat (adding a little more oil if necessary), stirring constantly, for 5 minutes.
Add thickening to the chicken livers, stirring constantly, until the sauce is smooth and thick.
Correct the seasoning, pour over noodles and serve very hot.
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The Tigers scored in all eight innings of their win at home against the Rockies
Aug 2, 2014, 10:24 PM EDT
The Tigers' offense pulled off a rare feat against Rockies pitching on Saturday night: they scored in all eight innings, winning 11-5. They scored once in each of the first three innings, twice in the fourth, three times in the fifth, and once each in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings.
According to STATS, it's the first time the Tigers have scored in all eight innings of a nine-inning home game since 1912. It appears that the Blue Jays were the last team to accomplish the feat, victimizing the Yankees on April 29, 2006. That is unofficial to my knowledge, however.
Three Tigers homered: Miguel Cabrera (solo), Victor Martinez (three-run), and J.D. Martinez (solo). Three Tigers had three hits each: Rajai Davis, Ian Kinsler, and Alex Avila.
- wingnut739 - Aug 2, 2014 at 11:15 PM
Yeah and they'll get shut out tomorrow. That's just how this team rolls
- khearn101 - Aug 2, 2014 at 11:56 PM
That's how all MLB teams roll. If a team averages 4 runs a game, it doesn't mean they score 4 points every game.
- toodrunktotastethischicken - Aug 3, 2014 at 12:00 AM
I didn't know any team scored points in any game in baseball.
- nothanksimdriving123 - Aug 2, 2014 at 11:54 PM
To my knowledge, the Tigers had never pulled this feat before.
It did happen in the Toronto/Yankees game of April 29, 2006, but the score was 17-6 for New York, so guess which team scored in every inning in which they came to bat. Hint: not the Jays.
No AL team has ever scored in all 9 innings; this was the 7th time an AL team has scored in all 8 innings in which they batted.
Since 1900, 3 NL teams have scored in all 9 innings, most recently the Rockies at the Cubs in 1999.
- sleepyirv - Aug 3, 2014 at 3:10 AM
Somewhere, Earl Weaver is cursing.
- ryanprzy - Aug 3, 2014 at 3:43 AM
how come
- nothanksimdriving123 - Aug 3, 2014 at 3:26 PM
Sleepy, that is unlikely as, sadly, he's been deceased for a year and a half.
- Minoring In Baseball - Aug 3, 2014 at 10:07 PM
The Tigers last did this 102 yrs ago.
- nothanksimdriving123 - Aug 4, 2014 at 12:59 AM
OK, I'm not sure what your link was supposed to tell me about the Tigers' 1912 season, but what I found was dozens of snap shots of someone's visits to minor league games and various museums. Can you be a little, no, a lot more specific?
- Minoring In Baseball - Aug 4, 2014 at 3:43 AM
It's a link to my website. Simple as that. Thanks for stopping by!
- nothanksimdriving123 - Aug 4, 2014 at 4:03 PM
OK. First, nice of you to snare traffic with an apparently false claim that the Tigers had previously achieved the feat they pulled the other night. A list at Baseball Almanac, a really terrific website BTW, does not include a Tigers 1912 entry.
Second, free advice: I suggest you modify your web page by cleaning up the clutter.
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Dhansak is a popular Indian dish, especially among the Parsi Zoroastrian community.[1] It combines elements of Persian and Gujarati cuisine. Dhansak is made by cooking mutton with a mixture of lentils and vegetables. This is served with caramelised brown rice, which is rice cooked in caramel water to give it a typical taste and colour. The dal cooked with mutton and vegetables served with brown rice, altogether is called dhansak.
In Parsi homes, dhansak is traditionally made on Sundays[2] as it is a heavy dish to digest and owing to the long preparation time.
Dhansak is also always had on the fourth day after the death of a near one. There is no meat consumed for three days after the death of a near one. And dhansak is used to break this abstinence on the fourth day. Dhansak hence, is never prepared on auspicious occasions like festivals and weddings.
Dhansak is made by cooking mutton cubes with a mixture of four lentils (arhar dal, Bengal gram or chana dal, red masoor dal and brown masoor dal), potato, tomato, brinjal, pumpkin and fenugreek leaves. The dhansak is flavoured with dhansak masala, which is a mixture of fifteen different spices,[clarification needed] ginger, garlic, coriander leaves, green chilli and mint leaves. Within the Parsi community, dhansak usually contains goat meat or mutton; it is rarely made with other meats, or without meat.
Outside of India, some variants of dhansak use pineapple chunks for sweetness,[3] however the traditional recipes never contain fruit, instead favoring the subtle sweetness of pumpkin, squash or gourd.
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- ^ Tanya M. Luhrmann (1996). The Good Parsi: The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society. Harvard University Press. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-0-674-35676-4. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ Jeroo Mehta (1973). 101 Parsi Recipes. Popular Prakashan. pp. 73–. ISBN 978-81-7991-367-3. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ Fodor's (3 November 2009). Fodor's England 2010: with the Best of Wales. Random House Digital, Inc. pp. 495–. ISBN 978-1-4000-0861-2. Retrieved 28 September 2012.


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Critical Review by Carolyne Wright
SOURCE: A review of The Dead and the Living, in The Iowa Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, Winter, 1985, pp. 151-61.
Wright is an American poet, critic, and educator. In the following review of The Dead and the Living, she praises Olds's use of unadorned, concrete description to evoke sympathy and love in scenes of domestic violence and trauma.
This second book [The Dead and the Living] by Sharon Olds, the 1983 winner of the Lamont Award, is a powerful follow-up to Satan Says, fulfilling all the expectations that first book raised. Grace Paley has said in an interview that "the act of illumination is political … the act of bringing justice into the world a little bit": by bringing into the light lives that have been (to use Paley's words) "unseen, unknown, in darkness," Olds has both revealed and redeemed the most painful portions of her private and public lives, and celebrated that which has brought her a palpable, full-bodied joy. By confronting her own "darkness" fairly, Olds has affirmed the humanity of those who engendered that darkness, and shown herself, in these days of sensationalized telling-all for lucrative book contracts, to be a poet of affirmation. To draw a parallel with nonfiction, we could say that Olds' poetry about family is more in the spirit of Geoffrey Wolff's The Duke of Deception than of Christine Crawford's Mommie Dearest.
As is already apparent, Olds' focus in these new poems is on themes which continue to preoccupy her—familial relationships, both those in which the speaker is daughter or granddaughter, and those in which she is wife and mother. In spite of many celebratory and humorous poems (especially in the sections of the book devoted to her chosen family—her husband and children), the dominant impression of the collection's first half is somber-hued, like that of a gallery of Old Master family portraits darkening with age. In what must have been poems difficult to write, Olds gives us, in passages seasoned with anger and leavened with compassion, the cruel, hard-drinking grandfather; the submissive grandmother; the elder sister who shockingly tormented her when they were children, knowing their mother "would never believe [the] story"; the brother who as an adult is still "sending his body to hell," in a protracted attempt at suicide; the mother who "took it and / took it in silence, all those years, and then / kicked [her husband] out, suddenly, and her / kids loved it"; and the father himself, especially the father, with his double bourbons and child abuse—tying his daughters to chairs, denying his son dinner, slapping the glasses off their faces. In the magnitude of what she has to forgive, and the courage, honesty, and gentleness with which she treats the details of the familial nexus, Olds brings a little more justice into the world, and also provides us with a sympathetic view of human love persisting in spite of cruelty and emotional trauma. There is much in the complexity of nuance and interrelation of characters, moreover, in these poems, that reminds us of a good collection of short fiction; as such, these poems are accessible and believable in the same way that fiction is. Olds does not stand outside or above the people in her poems; she speaks out but does not condemn; she is part of the same emotive fabric as they are, and this identification lends the work much compassion:
Finally I just gave up and became my father,
his greased, defeated face shining toward
anyone I looked at, his mud-brown eyes
in my face, glistening like wet ground that
things you love have fallen onto
and been lost for good. I stopped trying
not to have his bad breath,
his slumped posture of failure, his sad
sex dangling on his thigh, his stomach
swollen and empty. I gave in
to my true self …
The preoccupation with the father figure points to the truth of the love-hate relationship, in the nearly equal degree of energy the speaker devotes to those two emotions; and we see the peculiar way in which one transforms to the other, as the speaker gives up the attempt to be other than the object of fascination, and "becomes her father"—as we all are mysteriously inseparable from our earliest origins, and are most truly ourselves when we recognize and accept this truth. There are undertones of the Oedipal complex here—in the bowing to whatever is inevitable about the identity of parents and children, the nature we are perhaps fated to possess—but here the realization of such is less immediately terrifying, more immediately a source of redemption and psychic peace.
What makes these poems gripping (I read the galley proof straight through in one sitting) is not only their humanity, the recognizable and plausibly complex rendering of character and representative episode, but their language—direct, down to earth, immersed in the essential implements and processes of daily living:
My daughter has turned against eggs. Age six
to nine, she cooked them herself, getting up
at six to crack the shells, slide the
three yolks into the bowl,
slit them with the whisk, beat them until they hissed
and watch the pan like an incubator as they
firmed, gold. Lately she's gone from
three to two to one and now she
cries she wants to quit eggs.
No inflated diction or mannerisms here, no italicized Latin or French, no learned footnotes full of elaborate historical explanations or taxonomical nomenclature, but the basics: bread, milk, blood, water, hands, hair, eyes, birth, death, love. Of sixty-two poems in the book, nine of them end with the word life; could it be merely accidental that six of these endings occur in the final section, the poems about Olds' two children?
Concern for the fundamentals, however, does not mean that the poems are devoid of wit, intellect, or extended figurative play:
When I take my girl to the swimming party
I set her down among the boys. They tower and
bristle, she stands there smooth and sleek,
her math scores unfolding in the air around her.
They will strip to their suits, her body hard and
indivisible as a prime number,
they'll plunge in the deep end, she'll subtract
her height from ten feet, divide it into
hundreds of gallons of water, the numbers
bouncing in her mind like molecules of chlorine
in the bright blue pool.
("The One Girl At the Boys' Party")
The controlling algebraic metaphor is appropriate to the daughter's age and primary concerns—early adolescence and its sharpened awareness of sexuality, "to the power of a thousand from her body." The writer of these poems emerges as someone who knows, from living an "ordinary" or "typical" woman's life—marriage, child-rearing, and reflection upon her own childhood family—what is really important between people. Granted, most poets write their "family" poems, but few of these relate their private mythologies in terms of national or global events, few simultaneously keep their personal lives and the larger life of human community in mind, as Olds does here in a poem to her father:
Did you weep like the Shah when you left? Did you forget
the way you had had me tied to a chair, as
he forgot the ones strapped to the grille
in his name?… Did you forget
the blood, blinding lights, pounding on the door, as
he forgot the wire, the goad,
the stone table? Did you weep as you left
as Reza Pahlevi wept when he rose
over the gold plain of Iran, did you
suddenly want to hear our voices, did you
start to rethink the darkness of our hair,
did you wonder if perhaps we had deserved to live,
did you love us, then?
("The Departure")
The urgent interrogative tone here echoes the mental agony embodied in the extended figure of physical torture; the daughter, distraught and still angered by her father's cruelty, presses him, even in death, to respond. We sense that an affirmative would redeem childhood's horrors, because the father's love still matters: even in her anger, the speaker has not entirely cut him off, entirely refused to forgive.
Olds is not hesitant about dealing with violence or sexuality; she neither aggrandizes these concerns nor self-consciously flaunts them. Her treatment of physical love is direct, unembarrassed, and affectionate, as in this poem to her husband:
A week after our child was born,
you concerned me in the spare room
and we sank down on the bed.
You kissed me and kissed me, my milk undid its
burning slip-knot through my nipples,
soaking my shirt … I began to throb:
my sex had been torn easily as cloth by the
crown of her head, I'd been cut with a knife and
sewn, the stitches pulling at my skin …
I lay in fear and blood and milk
while you kissed and kissed me, your lips hot and swollen
as a teen-age boy's, your sex dry and big,
all of you so tender, you hung over me …
("New Mother")
Sensuality is heightened here by the impossibility of consummation, the tension between the couple's passion and present constraints; but it is the sensuality Olds affirms of happily married love. She can also be gently humorous, especially with that most evident of male totems, treating it neither with pre-Freudian awe nor post-Freudian resentment. Her humor, rather, bespeaks familiarity that breeds appreciation:
When I was a connoisseuse of slugs
I would part the ivy leaves, and look for the
naked jelly of those gold bodies,
translucent strangers glistening along the
stones, slowly, their gelationous bodies
at my mercy … the glimmering umber horns
rising like telescopes, until finally the
sensitive knobs would pop out the ends,
delicate and intimate. Years later,
when I first saw a naked man,
I gasped with pleasure to see that quiet
mystery reenacted, the slow
elegant being coming out of hiding and
gleaming in the dark air, eager and so
trusting you could weep.
("The Connoisseuse of Slugs")
The pleasure and indeed, the respect accorded here by this lengthy retroactive comparison is reminiscent of another treatment of a delicate and often-euphemized subject, Maxine Kumin's famous "Excrement Poem."
If I were to fault this book in any way, it would be for one aspect of the same urge toward clarity that makes Olds' work accessible: a tendency in places to overwrite, to over-describe or explain beyond what would suffice. The language here is generally looser, more narrative than that of Satan Says, and several poems could benefit from cutting of excess adjectives and explanatory phrases:
She had taught us to take it, to hate you and take it
until we pricked with her for your
annihilation, Father. Now I
pass the bums in doorways, the white
slugs of their bodies gleaming through slits in their
suits of compressed silt, the stained
flippers of their hands, the underwater
fire of their eyes, ships gone down with the
lanterns lit, and I wonder who took it and
took it from them in silence until they had
given it all away and had nothing
left but this.
("The Victims")
The awkwardness of "pricked with her for your / annihilation," the implied mixed metaphor of slugs with flippers, the belabored parallel of the ending weaken the poem's impact, so that it does not do justice to the intensity and importance of the subject; but with some careful cutting, such difficulties could be eliminated.
There are many poems, nonetheless, with the same ironic tautness, the same perceptive rigor, as those in Satan Says. One of my favorites is "Rite of Passage," an observation of small boys at a party already practicing their adult masculine roles as aggressors:
As the guests arrive at my son's party
they gather in the living room—
short men, men in first grade
with smooth jaws and chins.
Hands in pockets, they stand around
jostling, jockeying for place, small fights
breaking out and calming. One says to another
How old are you? Six. I'm seven. So?
They eye each other, seeing themselves
tiny in the other's pupils. They clear their
throats a lot, a room of small bankers,
they fold their arms and frown. I could beat you
up, a seven says to a six,
the dark cake, round and heavy as a
turret, behind them on the table. My son …
… speaks up as a host
for the sake of the group.
We could easily kill a two-year-old,
he says in his clear voice. The other
men agree, they clear their throats
like Generals, they relax and get down to
playing war, celebrating my son's life.
The grimmer undertones of violence and the irony of the son's diplomatic statement are tempered here by loving humor, and we are able to laugh with recognition of these "men in first grade" even as we shudder at the socialization processes that demand competitiveness and bullying, and make their relaxation contingent upon "playing war."
I have been focussing so far principally upon "Poems for the Living," the second half of the collection, in which Olds recollects her difficult past with relative tranquility and generosity, and celebrates her own married life and the lives of her two children. But it is the opening, "Public" section of the book's first half, "Poems for the Dead," which is likely to capture critical attention above all. These are poems based on news photographs, visual documentations of the grisly effects of civil and international conflict, and the hapless victims thereof—starving Russian and Armenian children, dead civil rights protestors, Chinese and Iranian revolutionaries, and an address, in the manner of Carolyn Forché's poems to those struggling in El Salvador, to activist poet Margaret Randall:
You are speaking of Chile,
of the woman who was arrested
with her husband and their five-year-old son.
You tell how the guards tortured the woman, the man, the child,
in front of each other,
"as they like to do."
Things that are worse than death.
I can see myself taking my son's ash-blond hair in my fingers,
tilting back his head before he knows what is happening,
slitting his throat, slitting my own throat
to save us that.
("Things That Are Worse Than Death")
Although Olds has not gone abroad to witness or participate personally in the resistance in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Chile, or elsewhere, the reality of that which is worse than death has entered her life as fully as it has the lives of those who have been present. She is just as engaged, her poetic reportage is every bit as impassioned—every line says, "I have been there, in mind and heart." She has not merely looked at, but truly seen the victims in the photographs—photos in the magazines we all flip through, photos in the archives we all have access to—and has responded in a way that many of us have not, although in theory we are all capable of doing so, if Kierkegaard's notion of actualizing potential is to be believed. Olds knows that we do not need to join the Peace Corps, work as overseas correspondents, or volunteer for partisan armies abroad in order to respond as human beings to man's own inhumanity, and to speak out and act upon what we have seen and heard. Here is what she saw of Rhodesia in 1978:
Just don't tell me about the issues.
I can see the pale spider-belly head of the
newborn who lies on the lawn, the web of
veins at the surface of her scalp, her skin
grey and gleaming, the clean line of the
bayonet down the center of her chest.
I see her mother's face, beaten and
beaten into the shape of a plant,
a cactus with grey spines and broad
dark maroon blooms.
I see her arm stretched out across her baby,
wrist resting, heavily, across the
tiny ribs.
Don't speak to me about
politics. I've got eyes, man.
("The Issues")
Unlike those who were there and who might have been swept up by the fever of their side of the cause, their immediate personal stake in the struggle; or who might have become inured to sights as horrible and as common in the war zone as these—if only for the sake of their own survival and sanity—as Philip Caputo has reported of Vietnam combatants in A Rumor of War; Olds' perceptions have not been blunted. She has not developed a perceptual defense mechanism against the sight of death; this vulnerability is one advantage, as it were, of not being physically present, of having an aesthetic, but not an emotional distance. Therefore, she is not fooled by political bafflgab or strategic rationales—of either the Right or the Left: her own eyes tell her all there is to know about "the issues," if the inevitable outcome of ideological differences is the pair of mutilated bodies on the lawn in Rhodesia. This poet is not one of those caught up in the glamour of revolution or revolutionary causes; her compassion for victimized humanity is pure common sense, a mother's feeling for the deprived, the helpless, the trapped, the children—especially the children:
The girl sits on the hard ground,
the dry pan of Russia, in the drought
of 1911, stunned,
eyes closed, mouth open,
raw hot wind blowing
sand in her face. Hunger and puberty are
taking her together. She leans on a sack,
layers of clothes fluttering in the heat,
the new radius of her arm curved.
She cannot be not beautiful, but she is
starving … The caption says
she is going to starve to death that winter
with millions of others. Deep in her body
the ovaries let out her first eggs,
golden as drops of grain.
("Photograph of the Girl")
What is signal about Olds' approach is a fidelity to detail that amounts to a modified naturalism: if she tells accurately what she sees (after selecting the most affectively pertinent details, just as the photographer has originally singled out that image, that angle and shutter speed and focal length, out of all possible subjects and treatments), the "message" implicit in the composition will stand forth on its own, as much as is possible in the inescapable contrivances of art. The speaker's stance toward her material is evident in the tone—"Just don't tell me about the issues"; "Things that are worse than death"; "I've got eyes, man";—but her attitude emerges from and is justified by the patent horror or pathos of what she shows us. Attention to detail has its ironic function as well, to point out the beauty or economy of the implements of oppression, the skill of those who devised them, as in this photo of dissidents awaiting execution in Iran:
The first thing you notice
is the skill
used on the ropes, the narrow close-grained
hemp against that black cloth
the bodies are wrapped in. You can see the fine
twist-lines of the twine, dark and
elegant, the intervals exact,
and the delicate loops securing the bagged
bodies to the planks like cradle boards.
The heads are uncovered, just the eyes
bound with rag.
("Aesthetics of the Shah")
The loveliness of the composition only underscores the terror of what is soon to befall those bound in such "delicate loops."
Olds' confidence in the power of detail, and her concomitant refusal to show off verbally, to interpose a display of verbal or prosodic pyrotechnics between subject and reader, make for clarity, a style very much at the service of the subject. In her own way, Olds has heeded Stevens' aphorism in The Necessary Angel—poetry as an act of the mind engaged in finding "what will suffice," to do justice to what she shows us. In a sense, then, her style at its best becomes "invisible," unobtrusive except for those moments in which the desire for clarity works against itself in an excess of adjectives or descriptive phrases. But these less effective passages do not unduly distract from the power of the poems.
I am stimulated by [The Dead and the Living]—by its fulfillment of earlier promise, and by the potential it suggests both for Olds' own future work and for American poetry in general. Once again we have an example of our common ability to embrace the world "out there"—we need not remain, mentally or aesthetically, in our suburbs and literary ghettoes, writing only about ourselves. What we turn our attention to in our respective "private sectors" can and does have relation to the public realm, and to the lives of others. Truly "political" poetry—that which has to do with the polis, the community—can function as an aesthetic semi-permeable membrane, where the personal and the public inform and interfuse each other, where we private citizens can respond as individual human beings to the fate of others across socio-economic and national boundaries. Whatever the controversies raging in the journals about the possibility for and validity of political poetry, Sharon Olds has shown us that she, at least, is able both to focus on her own family and to avail herself of information accessible to all of us to enact in literature a concern for the larger family of humanity.
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General Issue Areas: Emergency Management/Homeland Security Legal Issues, Legal Counsel Training, EMAC Legal Support, NEMA Committee Support.
Chair: Brenda Bergeron (CT)
Vice Chair: Allison Killebrew (MS)
Committee Members:
All interested state legal counsels can participate.
NEMA Board of Directors Liaison: Jonathon Monken (IL)
Private Sector Liaison: Ernie Abbott (FEMA Law Associates)