Sharon Dolin‘s fifth book, Whirlwind, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2012. Her fourth book, Burn and Dodge (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008), won the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. “The Book of Lost Aphorisms” appeared in Hotel Amerika and an essay on aphorisms is forthcoming in The American Poet. Recent winner of a Pushcart Prize (2011), she is Writer-in-Residence at Eugene Lang College, The New School.
Poetry
Autumn 2005
Either / Or
1. Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates: a tattered copy for sale on the street to remind me of the conundrum of or: Was it a matter of choosing Hans […]
Poetry
Summer 2004
The Truth of Poetry
if you demand on the one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, you are interested in […]
Poetry
Winter 1999
Life Is Not What You
expected cows ruminate by the highway even in rain or bat their ears forward and back and how you thought the story of your life would get told the children […]