by Sharon Dolin
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
eISBN: 978-0-8229-9082-6 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6005-8
Library of Congress Classification PS3554.O438B87 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54

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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.
 


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