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Stag's Leap
- Poems
- Narrated by: Sharon Olds
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Summary
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 listener, 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 30 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’ 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.