Burn and Dodge

Sharon Dolin

Publication Year: 2008

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.

Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press

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

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p. 87-87

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

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pp. 88-89

Burn and Dodge: A Sonnet/Ghazal

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p. 90-90

Cursed Anger Sing

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p. 91-91

On the Death of Someone Reviled (Schadenfreude)

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p. 92-92

Pandora and the Summer Au Pair

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pp. 93-94

Lick-Over

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p. 95-95

The Unwritten Poem

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pp. 96-97

Obsesspool

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p. 98-98

Impatience Scolding

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pp. 99-100

Sin-O-Mints

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p. 101-101

Either / Or

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pp. 102-104

Notes

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pp. 105-106

Acknowledgments

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pp. 107-108

E-ISBN-13: 9780822990826
E-ISBN-10: 0822990822
Print-ISBN-13: 9780822960058
Print-ISBN-10: 0822960052

Page Count: 120
Publication Year: 2008

Series Title: Pitt Poetry Series
Series Editor Byline: Ed Ochester

Burn and Dodge

Title Page, Copyright Page

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 Ate130 Years Ago

Envy Speaks

The Truth of Poetry

II

Current Events

1. who you

2. what-knots

3. be where

4. when, then

5. at when

6. why as in

7. and how

8. huh?

9. first why

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 Pess oa

Your Only Music: Sonnet/Ghazal Starting with a Linefrom Keats

Tai Chi in Fog

IV

Clare-Hewn

1. be, as in flotsam

2. tea lay

3. no ting

4. an ideal lure

5. missed hummer

6. the give, seek, am

7. summer moves

8. her at play

9. wrought up by a prating son

10. this scabbard’s free

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

Obj ect Memory

VI