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Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds
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Description for Stag's Leap
Paperback. Tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize
Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, 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 passion that still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of everything from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224096942
SKU
V9780224096942
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About Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco and educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. The winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize for her 2012 collection, Stag's Leap, she is the author of twelve previous books of poetry and the winner of many other awards and honours. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing ... Read more
Reviews for Stag's Leap
Sharon Olds, the winner of the 2012 TS Eliot Prize for Stag’s Leap, is the first female American Poet to win the prize, and perhaps the most accessible poet of her generation.
Tom Payn
Telegraph
Olds, who has always had a gift for describing intimacy, has, in a sense, had these poems thrown at her by life ... Read more
Tom Payn
Telegraph
Olds, who has always had a gift for describing intimacy, has, in a sense, had these poems thrown at her by life ... Read more