Summary
In this emotional new collection from ‘America’s greatest living poet’, Sharon Olds lays bare her divorce and the bones of lost love - her most powerful collection yet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and T.S. Eliot Prize.
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224096942 |
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| ISBN-10: | 022409694X |
| Author: | Sharon Olds |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
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.
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 and allowed them to take root: they are stunning – the best of a formidable career. – Kate Kellaway * Observer *
[A] brilliant and fearless poet. – Joyce Carol Oates
A tremendous book of grace and gallantry which crowns the career of a world-class poet. – Carol Ann Duffy * Huffington Post *
Taut and beautiful poems. – Edna O’Brien * Guardian *
Brave, generous and very moving. – Mark Sanderson * Sunday Telegraph *
[It] amazed me…great, heartfelt, monumental book. – Toby Litt * New Statesman *
Each image of Sharon Olds’ searing Stag’s Leap brands itself on retina and heart - how will I ever forget the “Tiny Siren” found by accident in the washing machine? – Gerda Stevenson * Morning Star *
The most powerful piece of writing I’ve encountered in decades… The raw emotion of break up transcends every known cliché thanks to her generosity of spirit and the awe-inspiring choreography of her language. – Laura George * Image Magazine *
I read this poetry collection with my heart in my mouth. – Jamie Quatro * Guardian *
About The Author
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 Program at New York University and helped to found the NYU outreach programs, among them the writing workshop for residents of Isidor Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island, and for the veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
She lives in New York City.
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