Following the Pulitzer prize-winning collection Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds returns with this stunning book of odes, using this ancient poetic form to address love, gender, and sexual politics in a collection that is centered on the human body's limitations and pleasures. In such poems as "Ode to My Sister," "Ode of Broken Loyalty," "Ode to the Creature from the Black Lagoon," and "Ode to the Last Thirty-Eight Trees in New York City Visible from This Window," Olds proves yet again that brutal honesty, lyricism, and humor can be the ingredients of high art.