Imperfect Present - (Pitt Poetry) by Sharon Dolin (Paperback)
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- Imperfect Present is a book for our current moment.
- About the Author: Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Manual for Living, Whirlwind, and Burn and Dodge, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.
- 96 Pages
- Poetry, American
- Series Name: Pitt Poetry
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A New Collection on the Complexities of Modern Life from an Award-Winning PoetBook Synopsis
Imperfect Present is a book for our current moment. By confronting the urgencies of daily life, from questions of identity to sexual abuse to racial unrest to the ubiquity of plastic, these poems investigate ways to sustain ourselves in our fraught public and private lives. With her characteristic linguistic play, Sharon Dolin illuminates some of the most personal concerns that resonate throughout our culture and in ourselves, such as error, despair, uncertainty, and doubt. In sections that deploy the lens of art, the "Oblique Strategies" of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, and meditations on dreams and spirituality, Imperfect Present provides a panoply of approaches that grapple with the complexity of now.Review Quotes
Imperfect Present is a stunning book, not simply for its depth of feeling, piercing wit, and well-earned wisdom but also for the brilliant play of language, the sheer sonic pleasures of it. Whether meditations on art, mortality, social justice, what it means to be and do good, these are poems startling both in their range and clarity of vision--at once delighting and jolting the mind toward recognition and a new apprehension of the world we thought we knew. I am reminded that Sharon Dolin is a poet for our time whose necessary voice I return to again and again.--Natasha Trethewey, former US poet laureate and author of Monument: Poems New and Selected
In this masterclass in effervescent wordcraft, even as it ranges through troubled terrain, Sharon Dolin proves to be a poet for the love of sanity. Seven collections of poetry, a Pushcart Prize, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship recipient, and Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress all attest to her boundless talent.-- "Foreword Reviews"
Sharon Dolin's marvelous new collection, Imperfect Present, brings with it her profound lyric intelligence and elegant, eloquent wit. Her brilliantly charged language embodies those shifting tensions, those often mercurial, often intense reflections that accompany us along the paths and passages of a life. Compassionate and compelling, Dolin's collection is, as its title suggests, truly the perfect book for our imperfect present moment.--David St. John, author of The Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems
There are many ways to describe Imperfect Present, Sharon Dolin's new collection of poems--delightful, earthy, erudite, engaging--but dazzling says it best. A master of form, Dolin offers a prismatic, often intimate, look at origins: language, country, belief, the self. Though many poems take on our worst imperfections--hatred, violence, degradation of the planet--others make room for generosity, an embrace of our failings, 'the shattered pieces of some inconceivable whole.' Imperfect Present is a powerful inquiry into what it means to be human, living in our present moment. As Dolin asks, 'even in the midst of sorrow how may I--we--still summon joy?'--Ellen Bass, author of Indigo
About the Author
Sharon Dolin is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Manual for Living, Whirlwind, and Burn and Dodge, winner of the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. She is also the author of a prose memoir titled Hitchcock Blonde and two books of translation: Book of Minutes by Gemma Gorga and the prize-winning Late to the House of Words: Selected Poems by Gemma Gorga. A 2021 National Endowment for the Arts [SA1] Fellowship recipient, Fulbright Scholar, Pushcart Prize winner, and recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, she lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops and is associate editor of Barrow Street Press.Dimensions (Overall): 9.07 Inches (H) x 5.53 Inches (W) x .29 Inches (D)
Weight: .34 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Series Title: Pitt Poetry
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Sharon Dolin
Language: English
Street Date: September 6, 2022
TCIN: 92123751
UPC: 9780822966876
Item Number (DPCI): 247-18-1603
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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