Blood, Tin, Straw - Hardcover

Olds, Sharon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375407421 ISBN 13: 9780375407420

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Presents a collection of poems whose imagery draws upon the elements of "blood," "tin," "straw," "fire," and "light"

About this title

About the Author:

Sharon Olds was born in 1942, in San Francisco, and was educated at Stanford University and Columbia University. Her poetry has won both the Lamont Poetry Selection and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches poetry workshops in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and helps to foster the NYU workshop program at Goldwater Hospital, a state facility for the severely physically challenged. In 1998 she was named the New York State Poet Laureate for 1998 - 2000. She lives in New York City.

From the Inside Flap:

of the 2000 Paterson Poetry Prize

"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. Unafraid to confront the ecstatic or the brutal side of a woman's experience, 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 mov

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375407421
• ISBN 13: 9780375407420
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 125