Burn and dodge / Sharon Dolin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dolin, Sharon, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--Collections.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (119 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Burn and Dodge is a collection of poems that "burns" with contemporary vices such as: Guilt, Envy, Regret, and Indecision while also "dodging" such concerns with formal playfulness.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

I

To Guilt

The Want Room

Regret

They

Shame

Grudge

Wanting Two: A Sonnet/Ghazal

Entreaty to Indecision

To the Family of the Man We Ate 130 Years Ago

Envy Speaks

The Truth of Poetry

II

Current Events

III

Ode to Turbulence

Ode to Mrs. Meunier, Captain of the Guard, P.S. 119 Brooklyn

Ghazal without the Man

Barbarous Thing

O Indigo

The Poem for Envy I Cannot Write

Sonnet/Ghazal to Sleep

At the Reception, 1963

Ode to Ginger

On Not Being Lynn Emanuel

Ode to Fernando Pessoa

Your Only Music: Sonnet/Ghazal Starting with a Line from Keats

Tai Chi in Fog

IV

Clare-Hewn

V

Cullet

Cloakroom Wit

A Pact with Ezra Pound

Passing

Slatch

Jealousy

Forms of Address

Envy Ghazaled

I Have

Door Litotes

Uncentered @ the Cathedral Rose Garden

Hot Springs Cinquains

Object Memory

VI

Riding Out a Monday Afternoon Funk I Read Charles Wright and Tu Fu Over a Cup of Green Tea

Letter to 700-Year-Old Invidia in the Scrovegni Chapel to Be Folded in the Shape of a Snake Swallowing Its Tail

Burn and Dodge: A Sonnet/Ghazal

Cursed Anger Sing

On the Death of Someone Reviled (Schadenfreude)

Pandora and the Summer Au Pair

Lick-Over

The Unwritten Poem

Obsesspool

Impatience Scolding

Sin-O-Mints

Either / Or

Notes

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822990826

0822990822

OCLC:

835768535