{"product_id":"blood-tin-straw-poems-9780375707353","title":"Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER 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\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSharon 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is an intensely moving collection by one of our finest poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375707353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.34h x 6.02w x 0.42d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/27\/1999 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1999 pg. 339\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/1999 pg. 142\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2000 pg. 1316\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sharon Olds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43180567134389,"sku":"9780375707353","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8f8d2e5a-41de-4061-8595-93bc3383dd24.jpg?v=1697516019","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blood-tin-straw-poems-9780375707353","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}