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Stag's Leap (book)
2012 poetry book by Sharon Olds
For other uses, see Stags Leap (disambiguation).
| Author | Sharon Olds |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Contemporary poetry |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 112 |
| ISBN | 0375712259 |
Stag's Leap is a book of poetry written by Sharon Olds and published in 2012.[1] It follows the events leading up to and following the poet's divorce, after a thirty-year marriage.
The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2013.
Content
After her divorce in 1997, Olds started writing a series of poems relating the different phases of grief and denial.
There are reminders of love and romance, and the constant battle between her mind and heart results in her questioning herself.[2] The poems trace the last year of the marriage, and then the year after.[3]
The collection contains 49 poems.
The first poem, "While He Told Me