Sharon Olds Odes to the *****
b'When the wise and whimsical Sharon Olds started writing poetry over 40 years ago, she explored the subjects that interested her most \\u2014 like diaphragms. \\u201cThe politeness and the prudity of the world I grew up in meant that there were things that were important to me and interesting to me, [but] I had never read a poem about,\\u201d she once said. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 2013 for her collection\\xa0Stag\\u2019s Leap\\xa0about walking through the end of a long marriage. Her most recent book,\\xa0Odes, pays homage to the human body and experience.\\nSharon Olds is the Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University. She is the author of Satan Says, The Dead and the Living, Odes, and Stag\\u2019s Leap \\u2014 for which she also won the T.S. Eliot Prize. She helped found NYU\\u2019s outreach program for residents of Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.\\nFind the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.'