Title: Blood, tin, straw
First published: 1999
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Poetry (poetic works by one author), New York Times reviewed
LC classification: PS3565.L34 B58 1999