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12 paź 2022 · Olds writes, with her usual shocking openness, about Carl’s death — she compares the two of them, pressed together in his hospice bed, to a tightly coiled sprout emerging from a germinating...
In “While He Told Me,” Olds recounts how, as her husband told her he was leaving, she simply “looked from small thing / to small thing, in our room, the face / of the bedside clock, the sepia postcard / of a woman bending down to a lily.”
4 wrz 2012 · Sharon Olds won the Pulitzer and T.S. Eliot Prize for this incredible collection of poems about the end of her marriage and the exit wounds of her divorce, after her husband of 30 years left her for another woman.
Stag's Leap is a book of poetry written by Sharon Olds and published in 2012. [1] It follows the events leading up to and following the poet's divorce, after a thirty-year marriage. The book won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2012, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2013.
On March 23, 1968, she married Dr. David Douglas Olds in New York City and, in 1969, gave birth to the first of their two children. In 1997, after 29 years of marriage, they divorced. She lives in the same Upper West Side apartment she has lived in for many years while working as a Professor at New York University. [13] .
23 paź 2012 · When poet Sharon Olds' husband told her he was leaving her, she took out her notebook and started writing. Her new volume, Stag's Leap, charts the death of that marriage in a collection of...
17 maj 2023 · The poet Sharon Olds had been married for 32 years when her husband broke the news: He was leaving her for his co-worker. In her collection Stag’s Leap, she tries to make sense of that loss....
