“Stag’s Leap” by Sharon Olds, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. The book is about grieving and healing at the end of a marriage.
Pulitzer judges called Olds’ collection “a book of unflinching poems on the author’s divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.”
Last year, Olds talked to the NewsHour about her collection, finding her poetic voice in her 30s and the “usefulness” of poetry:
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