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Poems
Knopf
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
112 pages
ISBN: 0307959902
EAN: 9780307959904
Kindle: B007MGSYAS
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Fiction Poetry
In this wise and intimate new book, Sharon Olds tells the
story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow,
memory, and new freedom. As she carries us through the seasons when her marriage was
ending, Olds opens her heart to the reader, sharing the
feeling of invisibility that comes when we are no longer
standing in love’s sight; the surprising physical bond that
still exists between a couple during parting; the loss of
everything from her husband’s smile to the set of his hip;
the radical change in her sense of place in the world. Olds
is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous
toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now
loves another woman. As she writes in the remarkable “Stag’s
Leap,” “When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when
it’s I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the
leaver.” Olds’s propulsive poetic line and the magic of her
imagery are as lively as ever, and there is a new range to
the music—sometimes headlong, sometimes contemplative and
deep. Her unsparing approach to both pain and love makes
this one of the finest, most powerful books of poetry she
has yet given us.
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