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4.01 AVERAGE
4.01 AVERAGE
A beautiful collection of poetry surrounding the emotions and motions of divorce, particularly divorce after decades of marriage. The author uses strong images and the passage of time to demonstrate the healing process and its continuous changes.
Sharon Olds' Stag's Leap is a book of poems about the author's divorce. It received much acclaim, including winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2013.
But I have to say that it is by far the weakest book in her oeuvre. Satan Says, her first book, was like a series of firecrackers, every poem a veritable explosion. In this book, almost every poem is a dud. The poems are leaden; they lack depth and range. She reveals an amount of self-absorption that is downright embarrassing. The poems say that both she and her friends think she has been maudlin too long. I can't agree more. There are phrases and even whole poems that possess power and are worth reading, but they are few and far between.
The fact that this was deemed the best book of poems by the Pulitzer committee in 2013 is a reflection that politics plays more of a hand than quality in literary awards.
But I have to say that it is by far the weakest book in her oeuvre. Satan Says, her first book, was like a series of firecrackers, every poem a veritable explosion. In this book, almost every poem is a dud. The poems are leaden; they lack depth and range. She reveals an amount of self-absorption that is downright embarrassing. The poems say that both she and her friends think she has been maudlin too long. I can't agree more. There are phrases and even whole poems that possess power and are worth reading, but they are few and far between.
The fact that this was deemed the best book of poems by the Pulitzer committee in 2013 is a reflection that politics plays more of a hand than quality in literary awards.
Sharon Olds' Stag's Leap is a book of poems about the author's divorce. It received much acclaim, including winning the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 2013.
But I have to say that it is by far the weakest book in her oeuvre. Satan Says, her first book, was like a series of firecrackers, every poem a veritable explosion. In this book, almost every poem is a dud. The poems are leaden; they lack depth and range. She reveals an amount of self-absorption that is downright embarrassing. The poems say that both she and her friends think she has been maudlin too long. I can't agree more. There are phrases and even whole poems that possess power and are worth reading, but they are few and far between.
The fact that this was deemed the best book of poems by the Pulitzer committee in 2013 is a reflection that politics plays more of a hand than quality in literary awards.
But I have to say that it is by far the weakest book in her oeuvre. Satan Says, her first book, was like a series of firecrackers, every poem a veritable explosion. In this book, almost every poem is a dud. The poems are leaden; they lack depth and range. She reveals an amount of self-absorption that is downright embarrassing. The poems say that both she and her friends think she has been maudlin too long. I can't agree more. There are phrases and even whole poems that possess power and are worth reading, but they are few and far between.
The fact that this was deemed the best book of poems by the Pulitzer committee in 2013 is a reflection that politics plays more of a hand than quality in literary awards.
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
challenging
hopeful
reflective
“Now I come to look at love in a new way, now that I know I’m not standing in its light.”
:’)
:’)
sad
slow-paced
finally finished the second half! hate her exhusband love the poems
This made my heart hurt.
I've never read an author so generous with her own grief.
I've never read an author so generous with her own grief.
These were stunning in their honesty and beauty. Moving account of love, the end of love.