“We have always been going back, since birth, back toward not being alive.”
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Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
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Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds is a renowned American contemporary poet, born on November 19, 1942. Her poetry is known for its straightforward and candid style, often exploring themes of love, family, and death through personal experiences. more
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“But if feels as if he's not here— though he's here, it feels as if, for me, there's no one there”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
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Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“And no, he does not want to meet again, in a year—when we part, it is with a dry bow and Good-bye.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“And sometimes I feel as if, already, I am not here—”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“but he does not want to talk about it, he wants a stillness at the end of it.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Before I turned out the light, he touched my face, then turned away, then the dark.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“where what cannot be seen is inferred by what the visible does.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems