WINNER OF THE 2007 DONALD HALL PRIZE IN POETRY

Selected by Bob Hicok

Burn and Dodge is part serious/part serious play and opens with a frank and occasionally antic exploration of contemporary vices, such as Guilt, Envy, and Regret. Some poems u201cdodgeu201d such preoccupations by playing with a nonce form called sonnet/ghazal. The collection contains a sequence of poems called u201cCurrent Events,u201d based on newspaper stories. that is also a playful meditation on the nature of the interrogative pronouns (Who, What, Where, When . . . ) as well as another series of homophonic sonnets called u201cClare-Hewn,u201d which are aural u201ctranslationsu201d of John Clare.