Stag's leap
Title:
Stag's leap
JLCTITLE245:
by Sharon Olds.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Physical Description:
x, 89 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780307959904
9780375712258
General Note:
Poems.
Abstract:
In this wise and intimate telling--which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending--Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, 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. Olds is naked before us, curious and brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and who now loves another woman. -- Cover, p. [4].
Contents:
January-December : While he told me ; Unspeakable ; The flurry ; Material ode ; Gramercy ; Telling my mother ; Silence, with two texts ; The last hour ; Last look ; Stag's leap ; Known to be left ; Object loss ; Poem for the breasts -- Winter : Not going to him ; Pain I did not ; The worst thing ; Frontis nulla fides ; On the hearth of the broken home ; Love ; The healers ; Left-wife goose ; Something that keeps ; The easel ; Approaching Godthab -- Spring : Once in a while I gave up ; To our miscarried one, age thirty now ; French bra ; My son's father's smile ; Not quiet enough -- Summer : Sea-level elegy ; Sleekit cowrin' ; Tiny siren ; Attempted banquet -- Fall : The haircut ; Crazy ; Discandied ; Bruise ghazal -- Years later : On reading a newspaper for the first time as an adult ; Maritime ; Slowly he starts ; Red sea ; Running into you ; I'd ask him for it ; The shore ; Poem of thanks ; Left-wife bop ; Years later ; September 2001, New York City ; What left?