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Summer 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 3 • Poetry |

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.

—Marianne Moore

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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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