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A review by nick_jenkins
Stag's Leap: Poems by Sharon Olds
3.0
Stag's Leap reminded me of the scene early on in the John Cusack film Say Anything where Cusack's friend Corey sees her ex-boyfriend Joe at a party, and she gets out her guitar and begins playing all of the 65 songs she's written about their break-up. Stag's Leap is 49 poems about the dissolution of Olds's marriage. There are no poems on other topics.
Yet Olds hits on some fine metaphors and images in most of the poems, and the book as a whole isn't as tedious as one might expect from such a prospectus. While the book as a whole feel self-indulgent and wallowing, the individual poems somehow skirt the line between pain and self-pity with much more grace. There is one in particular I like, "Discandied," which can be found here: http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/olds_sp11.html
Yet Olds hits on some fine metaphors and images in most of the poems, and the book as a whole isn't as tedious as one might expect from such a prospectus. While the book as a whole feel self-indulgent and wallowing, the individual poems somehow skirt the line between pain and self-pity with much more grace. There is one in particular I like, "Discandied," which can be found here: http://www.threepennyreview.com/samples/olds_sp11.html