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 the 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 America's finest poets.

Blood, Tin, Straw

Literature & Fiction

Sharon Olds

Poetry

Jonathan Cape Ltd.

Sharon Olds completes her cycle of family poems in a book at once intense and harmonic, playful with language, and rich with a new self-awareness and sense of irony. The opening poem, with its sequence of fearsome images of war, serves as a prelude to poems of home in which humour, anger, and compassion sing together with lyric energy - sometimes comic, sometimes filled with a kind of unblinking forgiveness. These songs of joy and danger - public and private - illuminate one another. As the book unfolds, the portrait of the mother goes through a moving revision, leading us to a final series of elegies of hard-won mourning. One Secret Thing is charged throughout with Sharon Olds's characteristic passion, imagination, and poetic power.

One Secret Thing

Cape Poetry

<p>A new sequence of poems telling the autobiographical story of the poets divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow, memory, and new freedom.</p>

Stag's Leap. by Sharon Olds

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

JONATHAN CAPE.

A sequence of poems about the range of emotions the author experienced as she faced losing her father to cancer - as she confronts the knowledge of his lack of affection for her and the mounting frustrations of watching him slip away forever.

The Father

Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd.

The anthology collects the poetry of San Diego students, along with poems by famous guest poets, read at the Border Voices Poetry Fair held March 24, 2006 at San Diego State University.

Border Voices 13

Luis J. Rodríguez

Dana Giola

Ken Waldman

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