Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds Patrick Dubost and an equally joyful but

and an equally joyful but more precarious exploration of desire

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to push the boundaries of poetic genre

Vahni Capildeo

Stag's Leap by Sharon Olds Patrick Dubost and an equally joyful butStag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, tells the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom. 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 passion that still exists