Great Regulars: Sharon Olds: Well, when I put a book together,

I look for what I think are the best poems; I guess I ask them to tell me, when I spread them out on the dining room floor, what their order is, how I should make an outer organization to reflect them. I wrote many many poems about the parting, and so, much later, when I began to think of making a book of those poems, I found a lot from that first year.

from The Barnes and Noble Review: After the Escape: Sharon Olds on Stag's Leap

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