Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds
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.
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 *
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 *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780224096942 |
| ISBN 10 | 022409694X |
| Title | Stag's Leap |
| Author | Sharon Olds |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 96 |
| Prizes | Winner of T.S. Eliot Prize 2013 (UK) |
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