Burn and Dodge - Paperback

by Sharon Dolin (Author)

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 "Clare-Hewn," which are aural "translations" of John Clare.

Author Biography

Sharon Dolin is the author of three previous poetry collections: Realm of the Possible; Serious Pink; and Heart Work, as well as five poetry chapbooks. She is Poet-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College at The New School for Liberal Arts. Dolin also teaches at the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City, where she directs The Center for Book Arts Annual Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Competition and is a curator for the Broadsides Reading Series.