Stag’s Leap is 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
Opening with a powerful and tender 'Ode to the Hymen', Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address many aspects of herself, in a collection that is centred around the female body and female p
Following her recent Odes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet gives us a new collection of poems that sing of a woman's intimate life and political conscience.The atom bomb, Breaking Bad, the cervix, Tra
Sharon Olds follows her Pulitzer Prize winner, Stag's Leap, with a stunning book of odes. Opening with a powerful and tender "Ode to the Hymen," Sharon Olds uses this age-old poetic form to address ma
