Description
Organized into five elemental sections—“Blood,” “Tin,” “Straw,” “Fire,” and “Light”—this powerful collection traces the making and remaking of a self through the intimate materials of ordinary life. Sharon Olds’s poems move fluidly across time, confronting family history, emotional inheritance, erotic awakening, marriage, and the body with startling candor. Her language is at once casual and fierce, raw and transcendent, transforming personal experience through an alchemist’s vision into poems of cleansing, endurance, and illumination.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Random House
Published Jan 1, 2010
114 pages
ISBN: 9781409001287
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Details
First Published
1999
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Blood, Tin, Straw by Sharon Olds.