WINNER OF THE 2007 DONALD HALL PRIZE IN POETRY Selected by Bob Hicok
"Burn and Dodge" is part serious/part serious play and opens with a frank and occasionally antic exploration of contemporary vices, such as Guilt, Envy, and Regret. Some poems dodge such preoccupations by playing with a nonce form called sonnet/ghazal. The collection contains a sequence of poems called Current Events, based on newspaper stories. that is also a playful meditation on the nature of the interrogative pronouns (Who, What, Where, When . . . ) as well as another series of homophonic sonnets called...
WINNER OF THE 2007 DONALD HALL PRIZE IN POETRY Selected by Bob Hicok
"Burn and Dodge" is part serious/part serious play and opens with a frank...
Whirlwind is one woman s frank, witty, mordant, sexy look at the breakup of a marriage and its emotional aftermath. With her characteristic linguistic play and mixture of poetic registers and styles, Sharon Dolin takes her readers on an off-the-tracks emotional ride through the whirlwind that goes by the name of divorce. Hang on tight. Here poems are never merely confessional, but use formal aplomb to ride the white-heat rage, hurt, denial, reflection, regret, wistfulness, desire, and sexual passion as they go hurtling through the many stages of grief after the death of a relationship...
Whirlwind is one woman s frank, witty, mordant, sexy look at the breakup of a marriage and its emotional aftermath. With her characteristic lin...
In this sixth collection by award-winning poet Sharon Dolin, Manual for Living offers three distinct approaches to life, each one riven by flashes of joy and despair, and all conditions in between. With a fresh slant on the Stoic philosopher Epictetus, the title section offers a part-serious, part tongue-in-cheek series of advice poems. An ekphrastic sequence based on the black paintings of Goya follows, as a darker meditation on life. The final section, Of Hours, is a contemporary sequence of psalms where the possibility for redemption in prayer exists. As in all of her work, Dolin s...
In this sixth collection by award-winning poet Sharon Dolin, Manual for Living offers three distinct approaches to life, each one riven by flas...