Whirlwind (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Dolin, Sharon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822962217 ISBN 13: 9780822962212

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012

Synopsis

Whirlwind is one woman’s frank, witty, mordant, sexy look at the breakup of a marriage and its emotional aftermath. With her characteristic linguistic play and mixture of poetic registers and styles, Sharon Dolin takes her readers on an off-the-tracks emotional ride through the whirlwind that goes by the name of divorce. Hang on tight. Here poems are never merely confessional, but use formal aplomb to ride the white-heat rage, hurt, denial, reflection, regret, wistfulness, desire, and sexual passion as they go hurtling through the many stages of grief after the death of a relationship and the rebirth of a more vital self. Dolin tackles difficult subjects unflinchingly in her poems: such as betrayal and the shame of the one being betrayed, being a parent within a volatile breakup, as well as some startling poems on the reawakening of sexuality and an attention to the natural world and politics. In her poem that won a Pushcart Prize, she dons the mask of the Furies to confront her ex-husband and his lover. A journalist of her own heart, Sharon Dolin has written a brazen collection that seethes with the pressure of a story to tell: cathartic and thrilling in equal measure.

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About the Author

Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Imperfect Present (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022) and Manual for Living (Pittsburgh, 2016). Her fourth book Burn and Dodge (Pittsburgh, 2008) won the 2007 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. She is also the author of a prose memoir Hitchcock Blonde (Terra Nova Press, 2020) and two previous books of translation from Catalan: Gemma Gorga’s Book of Minutes (Field Translation Series/Oberlin College Press, 2019), which received grants from PEN and Institut Ramon Llull, and Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of Saturnalia Books inaugural Malinda A. Markham Translation Prize, a Finalist for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize. The recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, AWP Donald Hall Prize, Pushcart Prize, and Witter Bynner Fellowship, Dolin is Associate Editor of Barrow Street Press and teaches poetry workshops in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822962217
• ISBN 13: 9780822962212
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 88