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- Burn and Dodge
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
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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.
Table of Contents
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- The Want Room
- p. 4
- Entreaty to Indecision
- pp. 11-12
- To the Family of the Man We Ate130 Years Ago
- pp. 2313-13
- Envy Speaks
- pp. 14-15
- The Truth of Poetry
- p. 16
- Current Events
- p. 19
- 1. who you
- pp. 20-21
- 2. what-knots
- pp. 22-23
- 3. be where
- p. 24
- 4. when, then
- p. 25
- 5. at when
- p. 26
- 6. why as in
- pp. 27-28
- 7. and how
- p. 29
- 9. first why
- pp. 31-32
- Ode to Turbulence
- p. 35
- Barbarous Thing
- p. 38
- At the Reception, 1963
- pp. 42-44
- Ode to Ginger
- p. 45
- On Not Being Lynn Emanuel
- pp. 46-47
- Ode to Fernando Pess oa
- pp. 48-50
- Tai Chi in Fog
- p. 52
- Clare-Hewn
- p. 55
- 1. be, as in flotsam
- p. 56
- 2. tea lay
- p. 57
- 3. no ting
- p. 58
- 4. an ideal lure
- p. 59
- 5. missed hummer
- p. 60
- 7. summer moves
- p. 62
- 8. her at play
- p. 63
- 10. this scabbard’s free
- pp. 65-66
- Cloakroom Wit
- p. 70
- Forms of Address
- p. 76
- Envy Ghazaled
- p. 77
- Door Litotes
- p. 79
- Hot Springs Cinquains
- pp. 81-82
- Obj ect Memory
- pp. 83-84
- Cursed Anger Sing
- p. 91
- Pandora and the Summer Au Pair
- pp. 93-94
- The Unwritten Poem
- pp. 96-97
- Obsesspool
- p. 98
- Impatience Scolding
- pp. 99-100
- Sin-O-Mints
- p. 101
- Either / Or
- pp. 102-104
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 107-108
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822990826
Related ISBN(s)
9780822960058
MARC Record
OCLC
835768535
Pages
118
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No