Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems
Sharon Olds$17.85
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WINNER OF THE PATERSON POETRY PRIZE - A transcendent collection of poems about the ecstatic and brutal side of a woman's experience--from the Pulitzer Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry winner, called "a poet for these times, a powerful woman who won't back down" (San Francisco Chronicle).
"She has written without embarrassment or apology, with remarkable passion and savagery and nerve, poems about family and family pathology, early erotic fascination, and sexual life inside marriage."--Amy Hempel Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections--"Blood," "Tin," "Straw," "Fire," and "Light"--each made up of fourteen poems whose dominant imagery is drawn from one of these elements. The poems are rooted in different moments of an ordinary life and weave back and forth in time. Each section suggests the progression of the making of a soul cleansed by blood, forged by fire, suffused by light. Sharon Olds transforms her subjects with an alchemist's art, using language that is alternately casual and startling, fierce and transcendent. This is an intensely moving collection by one of our finest poets.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/05/1999
ISBN: 9780375707353
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.34h x 6.02w x 0.42d
Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Nominee
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/27/1999 pg. 98
Booklist 10/01/1999 pg. 339
Library Journal 12/01/1999 pg. 142
Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1316
"She has written without embarrassment or apology, with remarkable passion and savagery and nerve, poems about family and family pathology, early erotic fascination, and sexual life inside marriage."--Amy Hempel Sharon Olds divides this new book into five sections--"Blood," "Tin," "Straw," "Fire," and "Light"--each made up of fourteen poems whose dominant imagery is drawn from one of these elements. The poems are rooted in different moments of an ordinary life and weave back and forth in time. Each section suggests the progression of the making of a soul cleansed by blood, forged by fire, suffused by light. Sharon Olds transforms her subjects with an alchemist's art, using language that is alternately casual and startling, fierce and transcendent. This is an intensely moving collection by one of our finest poets.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/05/1999
ISBN: 9780375707353
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.34h x 6.02w x 0.42d
Award: Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Nominee
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/27/1999 pg. 98
Booklist 10/01/1999 pg. 339
Library Journal 12/01/1999 pg. 142
Booklist 03/15/2000 pg. 1316