'Blood, Tin, Straw': pull-no-punches poetry
By Sandra Beasley | November 15, 1999In her new collection of poetry, "Blood, Tin, Straw," Sharon Olds revisits the temple of the body at which she has worshipped so skillfully in the past. Born in 1942, Olds has entered middle age with a renewed focus on determining identity through the experiences of love, lust and family.