abstract:Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds has been the recipient of many awards including the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980San Francisco Poetry Center AwardSharon Olds : The Poetry Foundation She currently teaches creative writing at New York University.
Poetry: "Stag's Leap, " by SharonOlds (Alfred A. Knopf), a book of unflinching poems on the author's divorce that examine love, sorrow and the limits of self-knowledge.
At the other end of the spectrum from both Mr Ashbery and Mr Muldoon is someone like SharonOlds, who writes poetry of sheer, unreconstructed pathos that is not so much autobiographical as autobiological about herself from the neck down.