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Winter 1999 • Vol. XXI No. 1 • Poetry |

Life Is Not What You

By Sharon Dolin

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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.

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