Status Updates From Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize...

“I was glad I had looked at him...
—somehow it helps to say good-bye to the actual,

and I saw, again, how blessed my life has been,
first, to have been able to love,
then, to have the parting now behind me,

and not to have lost him when he loved me,
and not to have lost someone who could have loved me for life.”

Well, well. Fuck me for asking for a book of poetry that will wreck me.

DEAR GOD the RAGE I feel on behalf of this woman. Olds is INCREDIBLE at personifying the pain she felt, what an absolute banger beginning to this collection. Holy s***

i am so mad and sad for this woman and so hopeful seeing her slow acceptance and clarity

the way sharon olds writes the specific brand of grief that is heartbreak is uniquely gut wrenching