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.
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.
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.
*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.
*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.
*Huffington Post*
Taut and beautiful poems.
*Guardian*
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