207 reviews for:

Stag's Leap

Sharon Olds

4.01 AVERAGE

swamp_witch's review against another edition

5.0

reflective sad medium-paced

hopesquirreled's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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A really raw, personal depiction of the grief around a divorce after thirty years of marriage. I read it slowly over a couple of weeks, and found the gradual and nonlinear progression of the language and emotion spanning the grieving process moving. It's painful to read, more sorrowful than angry in tone.

sarah_mitra's review against another edition

3.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

savaging's review against another edition

5.0

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Sharon Olds has said she isn't a poet of ideas. She admires those who have ideas, she says. All she has are the details of the small life around her. And that's what makes her work so wonderful. Who wants ideas when you could have life?

This collection of poems is about her husband of 30 years leaving her for another woman. It is brutal. And what makes it even more brutal is that she doesn't get angry. There's no righteous indignation or wicked told-ya-so to dissipate this grief. It is only grief.

htoo's review

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I do enjoy Sharon Olds' writing style. This collection is just not for me at this moment. While I do appreciate Olds for writing about her divorce, I feel like the repetitive nature of the poems makes it hard to get into. I'll definitely come back to this collection later.

miss_kristen's review against another edition

3.0

emotional sad fast-paced

lisaelizabhet's review against another edition

5.0

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Hace algunos meses empecé a orbitar poemarios sobre la pérdida, y ahora estoy sobreviviendo a mi propio duelo amoroso. No sé si fue mi intuición queriendo prepararme o pura coincidencia. Lo que sí sé es que Sharon Olds me quebrantó con estos poemas sobre su pérdida y que la amo y agradezco infinitamente ser envuelta por su sabiduría y ternura y por decirme antes de tiempo una afirmación que quisiera creer para siempre desde ahora: “Naciste para sanar”.

timbo001's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

reinedumonde's review against another edition

3.0

inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

magdalenaav's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced