Stag's Leap
Poems
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From one of today's best poets—a stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.
In this wise and intimate telling—which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending—Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer standing in love’s sight; the surprising physical bond that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from her husband’s smile to the set of his hip. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now…
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September 4, 2012
SHARON OLDS was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. She is the recipient of the Frost Medal for lifetime achievement, as well as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the UK’s T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012 collection, Stag’s Leap. She is the author of twelve previous books of poetry and the recipient of many other awards and honors, including the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award for her first book, Satan Says (1980), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for her second, The Dead and the Living, which was also the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helped…
Balladz
Sharon Olds
Arias
Sharon Olds
Odes
Sharon Olds
Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds
One Secret Thing
Sharon OldsWhat Silence Equals
Tory Dent;Sharon Olds
Strike Sparks
Sharon Olds
The Unswept Room
Sharon Olds
Blood, Tin, Straw
Sharon Olds
The Wellspring
Sharon Olds
The Father
Sharon Olds
Gold Cell
Sharon Olds
The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds
Every Living Thing
Jason Roberts
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 2
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon
Wînipêk
Niigaan Sinclair
Just Once, No More
Charles Foran
The Snag
Tessa McWatt
Foreign Fruit
Katie Goh
Where the Falcon Flies
Adam Shoalts
This Way Up
Cathrin Bradbury
Theory of Water
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Try Hard
Max Kerman
Down and Out in Paris and London
George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
Crackdown
Garth Mullins
Story of Your Mother
Chantal Braganza
Unravel
Tolu Oloruntoba
antibody
Rebecca Salazar
Forecast: Pretty Bleak
Chris Bailey
total
Aisha Sasha John
Paper Boat
Margaret Atwood
Signal Infinities
Melanie Siebert
woke up no light
Leila Mottley
The Seventh Town of Ghosts
Faith Arkorful
shima
sho yamagushiku
Empires of the Everyday
Anna Lee-Popham
The Knot of My Tongue
Zehra Naqvi
A Year of Last Things
Michael Ondaatje
From the Lost and Found Department
Joy Kogawa
After That
Lorna Crozier