A review by mwinters__
Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds

5.0

A staggering distillation of emotion, of things which seem too intimate, too deeply-founded for language— and yet in poem after poem Olds sounds the reaches of herself with astounding frankness and grace. Her verse runs from the soul of love through the body and into the earth and back again, weaving an aching tapestry of tactile emotional riches. Rare is the work which can render such intensely private experience with such impeccability of craft and such forcefulness of feeling.